Re: 5, there was a massive gambling operation at Boten as well, but it was shut down in 2011. Also, while the history of Chinese nationalist armies taking refu

Re: 5, there was a massive gambling operation at Boten as well, but it was shut down in 2011. Also, while the history of Chinese nationalist armies taking refuge in northern Thailand is rather fascinating [1], we're talking about only ~4,000 people and their descendants here and they're politically insignificant these days. Of course, Thailand itself has a complicated relationship with China. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santikhiri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santikhiri