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1 - Setting Up in Hong Kong and Arrest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2021

Geoffrey C. Gunn
Geoffrey C. Gunn
Affiliation:
Nagasaki University
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This chapter explains the circumstances surrounding Ho Chi Minh's arrival in Hong Kong from Thailand in December 1929.He went on to launch the Vietnamese Communist Party at a meeting held in Hong Kong in February 1930 dubbed the Unification Conference. The following October he further superintended the creation of the Indochinese Communist Party (thus bringing in Cambodia and Laos in addition to Vietnam), albeit with Moscow-returnee Tran Phu stepping into the leadership. If this was all that Ho Chi Minh accomplished in Hong Kong then it would still be significant. Operating out of his base in Kowloon City, Ho Chi Minh then took charge of communist party organization in Malaya and Thailand. As described with reference to French archival documents, his misplaced efforts in sending coded messages to contacts in Singapore backfired, leading to sweeping arrests of the communist underground from Vietnam to Shanghai as well as his own apprehension along with a female comrade in Hong Kong on June 6, 1931.

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Hong KongThailandSingapore/MalayaUnification ConferenceIndochina Communist PartyCommunist InternationalLeadership
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Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong
Anti-Colonial Networks, Extradition and the Rule of Law
 , pp. 17 - 50
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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