Bamboo Curtain
nameEtymology
After iron curtain, the original Cold War “curtain” (in Europe). First use appears in Time magazine in 1949.
Definitions
The political and ideological barrier between the communist and capitalist states of Asia…
The political and ideological barrier between the communist and capitalist states of Asia during the Cold War.
- 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.
- “A new bamboo curtain may be coming down on Southeast Asia,” he worried. This would not be a hard-and-fast wall like the Iron Curtain; nor would it be part of some newly imagined Asian domino theory.
Alternative letter-case form of Bamboo Curtain.
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