Bamboo Curtain

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After iron curtain, the original Cold War “curtain” (in Europe). First used in Time magazine in 1949.[1]

Bamboo Curtain

1. (historical) The political and ideological barrier between the communist and capitalist states of Asia during the Cold War.
   • 1982 November 7, “ROC to aid joint security”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXIII, number 44, Taipei, page 1:

     Gen. Wego Chiang, commander-in-chief of the Combined Service Forces, called on leaders of the free world to design an effective global strategy to safeguard world peace and to rescue the enslaved people behind the Bamboo Curtain.

   • 2008 September, Robert D. Kaplan, “Lifting the Bamboo Curtain”, in The Atlantic‎:

     “A new bamboo curtain may be coming down on Southeast Asia,” he worried. This would not be a hard-and-fast wall like the Iron Curtain; nor would it be part of some newly imagined Asian domino theory.

   • 2015, James McGrath Morris, Eye on the Struggle‎, Amistad, →ISBN, page 321:

     As it had been for other Western reporters getting their first look behind the Bamboo Curtain, it was all a marvel for Payne. After all, here was a country that less than a quarter of a century ago had been destitute after three decades of revolutionary warfare.

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