Bamboo curtain

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The bamboo curtain was a political demarcation between the communist states of East Asia, particularly the People's Republic of China and the non-communist states of East, South and Southeast Asia. To the north and northwest lay the communist states of China, the Soviet Union (until 1991), North Vietnam (until 1975), North Korea, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (until 1992), and the Mongolian People's Republic (until 1990). To the south and east lay the non-communist countries of Pakistan, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Macau. Following the Korean War, the Korean Demilitarized Zone became an important symbol of this Asian division (though the term bamboo curtain itself is rarely used in that specific context). Before the Vietnam War, the non-communist bloc included South Vietnam, the Kingdom of Laos and the Kingdom of Cambodia. However, after the war, the new governments...

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