Cashing In across the Golden Triangle: Thailand’s Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar Literature Journal of the Siam Society

Journal of the Siam Society

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Cashing In across the Golden Triangle: Thailand’s Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar Literature Journal of the Siam SocietyThein 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