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The events of 1953, such as the establishment of the Tai Autonomous Area1 in Yunnan in January and the rumoured activities of the former members of the Free Thai Movement in that area, did much to confirm the Thai leaders’ belief that the Chinese Communists intended to expand their influence and control into Southeast Asia and Thailand. These developments sharpened the perception that the PRC was a real threat to Thailand’s security and heightened the Thai leaders’ sense of urgency in the need for a security guarantee from the United States. As a result, the Thai government tried to be as cooperative as it could with the Americans, for example on the matter concerning the evacuation of the Kuomintang troops from Burma.
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George Moseley, Policy Toward Ethnic Minorities on the Southern Frontier of the People’s Republic of China, D.Phil. thesis (University of Oxford, 1970), p. 88. The Tai Autonomous Area was originally set up as an ‘area or region’ (ch’u). It was redesignated as a ‘prefecture’ (chou) by the 1954 Constitution (p. 157).
D. J. Waller, Government and Politics of Communist China (London, Hutchinson & Co.(Publishers) Ltd., 1970). p. 147.
Pridi Banomyong, Ma Vie Mouvementée et Mes 21 Ans d’Exil en Chine Populaire (Paris, 1972), pp. 91–119. Pridi, while stating that he moved to Canton in 1955. did not record the exact date (p. 113).
Alfred W. McCoy et al., The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972). p. 128.
David Wise and Thomas Ross, The Invisible Government (New York, Random House 1964). p. 131.
Robert H. Taylor, Foreign and Domestic Consequences of the KMT Intervention in Burma, Data Paper No. 93, Southeast Asia Program (Cornell University, 1973), p. 45.
Kenneth R. Young, Nationalist Chinese Troops in Burma — Obstacle in Burma’s Foreign Relations: 1949–1961, Ph.D. thesis (New York University, 1970). p. 84.
Hugh Toye, Laos: Buffer State or Battleground (London, Oxford University Press, 1968), pp. 84–85.
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Chinvanno, A. (1992). Perception of Chinese Communist Aggression, 1953–1954. In: Thailand’s Policies towards China, 1949–54. St Antony’s / Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12430-5_5
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