CHINESE IN LAOS
Alarm At Activity (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, February 22. Western diplomats in South-east Asia are expressing deep concern over reports of intensive Chinese activity in north-western Laos, according to a “New York Times” correspondent.
Recent accounts from Laos have added disturbing military and political implications to the road-building programme undertaken by China under an agreement between Peking and Vientiane last year, the correspondent reported from Hong Kong. An estimated 10,060 Chinese working on a road net work in north-western Laos are under the command of Chinese Army engineers, according to these reports. Many of the Chinese are said to be armed.
Phong Saly, a stronghold of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao forces, is the principal junction point for the Chinese-built roads. Various alarming possibilities are seen in increasing Chinese penetration into the sensitive area where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Burma meet, with an undemarcated Chinese boundary a few miles to the north-west.
This quadrant of northwestern Laos is controlled by Pathet Lao, the military arm of the pro-Communist Neo Lao Hakat Party in the uneasy Coalition Government of Laos.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30064, 23 February 1963, Page 11
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