Laos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...pushed southward from Yunnan, China, in the 13th cent. and gradually...sway over sections of Yunnan, China, of S Myanmar, of the Vietnamese...abandoned economic communism for capitalism, but the party retained tight...with such former enemies as China, Thailand, and the United...