Cashing In across the Golden Triangle: Thailand’s Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar Literature Centre of Asian Studies

Centre of Asian Studies

Her field of research has in the last decade extended to Sino‐Tai relations in Yunnan and mainland Southeast Asia

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Elucidates ASEAN’s objectives

Cashing In across the Golden Triangle: Thailand’s Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar Literature Centre of Asian StudiesThein Swe and Paul Chambers Historically, the Golden Triangle on the Mekong River has been a strategic yet largely impoverished crossroads between Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and southern China. In the latter half of the twentieth century, it was known as one of the worlds key opiumproducing regions. The new transnational economic corridors connecting northern Thailand and southwestern China via key border towns in Myanmar and Laos have greatly increased