MAE SALONG, Thailand – With its streets lined with restaurants serving steaming bowls of Yunnanese noodles, red lanterns hanging outside homes, and Mandarin as the lingua franca, Mae Salong is more Chinese enclave than Thai town. But there’s a fascinating history of geopolitics, war and the roots of Southeast Asia’s billion-dollar drug trade hidden in
MAE SALONG, Thailand – With its streets lined with restaurants serving steaming bowls of Yunnanese noodles, red lanterns hanging outside homes, and Mandarin as the lingua franca, Mae Salong is more Chinese enclave than Thai town. But there’s a fascinating history of geopolitics, war and the roots of Southeast Asia’s billion-dollar drug trade hidden in
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