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Peking and the Laotian Crisis: An Interim Appraisal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Brian Crozier
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It would be only a mild exaggeration to say that China has been dominating the international conference on Laos. Certainly the weight of the Chinese presence has made itself felt in ways that were not true of the Far Eastern conference held in the same city—Geneva—in 1954. In various respects, indeed, the Chinese seem to have been determined from the start to make an impact on other participants commensurate with their own estimation of China's international stature. To this end, they sent the largest of all the sixteen delegations to Geneva and—though willing on occasion to display a proper co-existential courtesy towards carefully selected other delegations—they have consistently stuck to a line that is, in most respects, markedly more intransigent than the Soviet Union's.

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Recent Developments
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The China Quarterly , Volume 7 , September 1961 , pp. 128 - 137
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1961

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1 The British, for instance, but not, understandably, the American, South Vietnamese or Boun Oum delegations.

2 B.B.C. Summary of World Broadcasts (SWB), Part I, No. 610, 04 11, 1961.Google Scholar

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5 Those of the Soviet Union, the Chinese People's Republic, North Vietnam and the Neo Lao Haksat (the political arm of the Communist-led Pathet Lao movement).

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9 Ibid., No. 574, Feb. 24, 1961.

10 Ibid., No. 581, March 4, 1961.

11 Ibid., No. 591, March 16, 1961.

12 Ibid., Part I, No. 601, March 28, 1961.

13 Ibid., Part III, No. 604, April 4, 1961.

14 Ibid., Part III, No. 625, April 28, 1961.

15 Ibid., Part I, No. 644, May 20, 1961.

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