Taiwan in the Vietnam War - Part 2: The Wild Wild East

I finally did it, I finally finished all the videos I have been planning to make, using left over footage from a video game, since 2020...I did it...

Part of my Obscure Moments in History series.

Part 1:    • Taiwan in the Vietnam War - Part 1: In Cou...  

Going beyond Vietnam, we see the Taiwan POLWAR doctrine stretch all the way around the borders of Southern China, from Cambodia, to Laos, to Burma/Myanmar

0:00 Laos
0:36 South Star Group (1962)
3:00 Battle of Luang Namtha (1962-1963)
8:13 Team Sone Pet (Diamond Arrow) (1967-68)
12:16 Third Opium War (1967)
18:12 Cambodia
19:53 Losing the War
21:34 Taiwan and Vietnam Today
23:27 Footage Slideshow of Taiwanese Troops

Topics:
Burma Opium Trade
Laos
Taiwanese Embassy Bombing (1967)
National Security Bureau (NSB)
Dai Li
ARVN Black Dragons
CIA
Bamboo Wall and Domino Theory
ROCMAGV
MACV SOG
General Westmoreland
Chiang Kai Shek
Warsaw Talks
Taiwan-USSR Alliance
Chiang Ching Kuo
Ngo Dinh Diem

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"Taiwan-Vietnam ties are looking better than ever", China Post, 2006-11-20, retrieved 2011-10-06
Huang Zongding, Academia Sinica Institute of Modern History Issue 79, March 2013, pp. 137-172. (traditional Chinese)
Thomas L. Ahern Jr., The Way We Do Things: Black Entry Operations Into North Vietnam 1961-1964, pp 44
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