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

and Honorary Associate of the Department of Indian Sub-Continental Studies

The manuscript was transcribed by David K

In recent years the river and its surroundings have become a “development corridor” and a framework for thinking about trade

Ma Thanegi is a painter

Cashing In across the Golden Triangle: Thailand’s Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar Literature and Honorary Associate of theThein 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