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Bamboo Curtain en · PROPN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

After iron curtain, the original Cold War “curtain” (in Europe). First use appears in Time magazine in 1949.

Meanings

1. (historical) The political and ideological barrier between the communist and capitalist states of Asia during the Cold War.
   • As it had been for other Western reporters getting their first look behind the Bamboo Curtain, it was all a marvel for Payne. After all, here was a country that less than a quarter of a century ago had been destitute after three decades of revolutionary warfare. 2015, James McGrath Morris, Eye on the Struggle, Amistad, →ISBN, page 321:
   • 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. 1982 November 7, “ROC to aid joint security”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIII, number 44, Taipei, page 1:
   • “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. 2008 September, Robert D. Kaplan, “Lifting the Bamboo Curtain”, in The Atlantic:

Forms

Relateds

bamboo ceiling

Translations (21)

km រនាំងឬស្សី (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · fi bambuesirippu (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · ka ბამბუკის ფარდა (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · be Бамбукавая заслона (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · vi bức màn tre (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · fr Rideau de bambou (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · ko 죽(竹)의 장막 (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · jv ꦠꦶꦫꦲꦶꦧꦩ꧀ꦧꦸ (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · ru Бамбуковый за́навес (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · id tirai bambu (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · pl Bambusowa kurtyna (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · pt Cortina de Bambu (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · da Bambustæppet (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · fa پردهی خیزرانی (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · ja 竹のカーテン (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · ml ബാംബൂ കർട്ടൻ (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · th ม่านไม้ไผ่ (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · no Bambusteppet (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · cmn 竹幕 (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · es Telón de Bambú (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia) · sv Bamburidån (political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia)