bamboo curtain

noun
1.
a political and ideological barrier that impeded relations between Communist Asia, especially China, and the West from 1949 to 1972.
Compare iron curtain.
British Dictionary definitions for bamboo curtain

bamboo curtain

noun
1.
(esp in the 1950s and 1960s) the political and military barrier to communications around the People's Republic of China
Slang definitions & phrases for bamboo curtain

bamboo curtain

noun phrase

The barrier of secrecy and exclusion that once cut the People's Republic of China and other Asian Communist countries off from the rest of the world

[modeled on iron curtain]