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...Laos, he declared, was "a peaceful country, which for more than 20 years has known neither peace nor security." Savang Vatthana promised to refrain from any military alliance, to rid Laos of all foreign bases. All he asked was that a commission come in from his neutral neighbors-Cambodia, Burma and Malaya-to stop the fighting and to identify and denounce any foreign interventionists...
...give added insult, Red China has been elaborately conciliatory to its other neighbors, while treating the Indians with scorn. In January, Premier Chou En-lai ratified a border treaty with Burma, impudently drawing a line that gave Burma a small slice of northeastern India as part of the deal. Except for disputed Mount Everest, the Chinese have about reached a border pact with Nepal (Red China naturally wants the world's highest peak). Now Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan says he plans to get together with the Chinese and draw a northern border for the Pakistan-held sector...
Their odyssey began back in 1949, when crusty old General Li Mi, retreating as the Red Chinese armies advanced into Yunnan province, led some 10,000 of his men across the border to safety in Burma. General Li soon arranged to have supplies (often U.S.-made) flown in from Formosa, launched harassing raids on the Red Chinese across the border. Unfortunately, his troops were equally willing to take on the Burmese, who complained to the U.N. Under pressure, the Nationalist government suspended its aid, and in 1953-54 General Li and some 7,000 guerrillas were flown out to safety...
...processing opium in homemade stills set up in the bush. Occasionally they slipped across the Red Chinese frontier to pillage border villages. The bandits' activities were a troublesome irritant to the Burmese government, which feared that the rebels' raids might provoke Red China into moving into Burma against them in force. Said one Burmese army officer: "We simply have to get rid of those guys...
Last summer, while working out the details of the Sino-Burmese border treaty, Burma concluded a secret deal with Red China in which the Communists pledged to help the Burmese army clean out the Nationalist bandits. Terms of the agreement allowed troops of both countries to jump ten miles across their respective borders in pursuit of the rebels...