Att Kina kan skaffa sig fördelar i Thailand ett politisk klimat de känner igen är inte nytt för dagen
och jag ser inte Kinas närvaro eller inflytande i Thailand som speciellt positiv.
Det kanske andra här gör och det skulle vara intressant att få veta precis varför i så fall.
Lite om implikationerna, här.
China is a big winner from Thailand’s coup...
A rocky period in Thai–US relations might seem of little consequence were it not
for the escalating tensions between the US, China and other Southeast Asian nations
over China’s increasingly assertive actions in the South China Sea.
At precisely the moment that the US wants ASEAN to present a united front,
Thailand’s royalist establishment now appears to be looking to play the ‘China card’ as a rebuff to the United States.
Det är som sagt ingen nyhet, precis, att:
Thailand’s Princesses Sirindhorn and Chulabhorn — both of whom are believed to have supported the royalist protesters
wanting to oust the Yingluck government — have long been cultivating close relations with China.
Both visit China regularly.
As Geoff Wade points out, since the 2006 coup, links between the Thai and Chinese have ‘burgeoned’, including military links.
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