Bamboo Curtain
See also: bamboo curtain
English
Alternative forms
- bamboo curtain
Etymology
After iron curtain, the original Cold War 'curtain' (in Europe). First used in Time magazine in 7 November 1949.[1]
Proper noun
Bamboo Curtain
- (historical) The political and ideological barrier between the communist and capitalist states of Asia during the Cold War.
- 1982 November 7, “ROC to aid joint security”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIII, number 44, Taipei, page 1:
- Gen. Wego Chiang, commander-in-chief of the Combined Service Forces, called on leaders of the free world to design an effective global strategy to safeguard world peace and to rescue the enslaved people behind the Bamboo Curtain.
- 2015, James McGrath Morris, Eye on the Struggle, Amistad, →ISBN, page 321:
- As it had been for other Western reporters getting their first look behind the Bamboo Curtain, it was all a marvel for Payne. After all, here was a country that less than a quarter of a century ago had been destitute after three decades of revolutionary warfare.
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Translations
political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia
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References
- 1949, Time Magazine: "CHINA: Behind the Bamboo Curtain"