What Is The Truth About The Baling Talks?

By Kee Thuan Chye

July 2011 TALK-TALK ONLY
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When Alias Chin Peng: My Side of History was published in 2003, interested parties naturally began a frantic search through its pages for spicy details and poignant revelations. One of the issues that drew attention was the Baling Talks, and how Chin Peng the master strategist realised that he was but a pawn on a chessboard stretching far beyond Malaya’s boundaries.WE TEND TO THINK OF the Baling Talks of 1955 as a serious attempt by the government to negotiate peace...

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Kee Thuan Chye

is the author of the new bestsellers Unbelievably Stupid! and Unbelievably Stupid Too!

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