Mongols fear hordes: China seems too close for comfort

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Mongolia's attention since liberation from Russia has focused on China, considered by Mongolians a potential military or migration threat and an actual economic one. The landlocked country has rich natural resources but only 2.2 million people in 1,556,000 sq km of rugged terrain. Its economy, stagnant since 1989, began growing again in 1994 at 2%. It receives more foreign aid per capita than any other Asian country. Ultimately its survival may rest on the desires of others to keep Russia and China apart.

Natural resources, Chinese foreign relations, Mongolia, Mongolian foreign relations

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Chinese takeaway

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Opium trafficking has become firmly entrenched in Yunnan province and in southern China in general. In the city of Pingyuan near the Vietnamese border the drug smugglers' wealth and power became so great that Chinese troops backed by tanks had to lay siege to the city for two months before the smugglers were finally ousted in 1992. Corruption financed by drug money is now rife throughout the province. A local ethnic group, the Yunnanese Muslims, handles most of the smuggling.

Social aspects, Opium trade, Yunnan, China

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Economic tsar: veteran communist courts foreign capital

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Laos' Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of the State Committee for Planning and Cooperation Khamphoui Keoboualapha would like more foreign aid in developing his country, especially rural areas. He seeks economic cooperation primarily in the agriculture, transportation infrastructure, and heavy industry sectors of the economy. All foreign countries are treated equally, he insists, though Thailand understands Laos best and has invested in it most heavily.

Economic policy, Interview, Laos, Khamphoui Keoboualapha

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