Round 9: Tossup 12

The CIA’s Operation Paper supplied an army of this ethnicity that expanded the Shan Hills opium trade in the 1950s. Pedro Bravo de Acuña initiated the first (-5[1])massacre of traders of this ethnicity when they rebelled at confinement in Parián districts. (10[1])An inland minority of these people in Thailand is partly descended from Li Mi’s army and partly (10[1])from Panthay refugees. The Peranakan are descendants of early immigrants of this ethnicity. Members of this ethnicity founded mining “republics” (10[1])on Borneo such as the Lanfang (10[2])Republic. After gains by the Gerakan Party sparked a riot against this ethnicity on May 13th, 1969, affirmative action policies were initiated for the bumiputera in Malaysia. For 10 points, the term huaqiao (“HWAH-chyow”) refers to overseas members of what (10[1])nationality that uses an endonym referring to the Tang Dynasty? ■END■ (10[2])

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