The scene does not look at first like your typical tourist draw: rotting weapons, faded battlefield photos and rough-sketched jungle maps, the remnants of a little-remembered Cold War force of exiled, U.S.-equipped Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) guerrillas battling a losing rearguard war against the new Communist regime in Beijing.
Many ethnic Chinese-Thai parents — and some non-Chinese Thais — now send their children to private language schools for their first four years of schooling to learn Mandarin, preparing for possible careers dealing with Chinese investors, officials and others.
Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes have been a source of controversy in the United States, but here dozens of the centers are seeded around the country, sponsored by China’s National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language.
The China-based high-tech telecommunications leader Huawei, which faces severe headwinds in the U.S. and many Western markets, operates a 5G telecommunications network that is thriving inIn Bangkok, meanwhile, a new generation of Chinese immigrants have been arriving overland from Yunnan, Sichuan and other landlocked provinces.
These so-called “overland Chinese” or “overland Yunnanese” are a different ethnic trend compared with previous centuries, when most Chinese came to what was then known as Siam by sea from
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