US Proxies Win Thai 2023 General Elections – Thai-Chinese Relations at Risk, Instability Looms…
Mon 11:47 am +00:00, 15 May 2023US Proxies Win Thai 2023 General Elections – Thai-Chinese Relations at Risk, Instability Looms…
– US interference in Thailand’s media & information space, education system, and political system has reached critical mass, allowing US-sponsored opposition parties to sweep elections;
– so-called “pro-democracy” parties are led by corrupt billionaires including a convicted criminal and fugitive behind the worst human rights abuses in Thailand’s history;
– the US-backed opposition is openly anti-China, has called for canceling arms deals, infrastructure projects (including the high-speed railway), and rolling back ties with Beijing in favor of pivoting to the West;
– The West offers no alternatives to China’s tangible contributions to Thai and regional development as well as economic prosperity. Instead, the US offers increased involvement in regional affairs and “military cooperation” which equates to antagonizing China, the region’s most important economic player;
– the US is involved heavily in transforming Asia into a united front against China in the same self-destructive way it has transformed Europe into an anti-Russian block, serving US interests at the expense of the European people’s best interests;
– Thailand has suffered cycles of political instability similar to this before and prevailed, and could possibly prevail again. Efforts across multipolar institutions and blocs to aid nations like Thailand in uprooting US interference could help spare Thailand and the region from otherwise inevitable instability and violence;
References
The New Atlas – US Meddling in Thai Elections: Seek to Create a Hostile Anti-China Proxy (video backgrounder on US interference behind the Thai political crisis): 
• US Meddling in Th…
The Atlantic – A Stress Test for Biden’s Commitment to Global Democracy: https://www.theatlantic.com/internati…
US National Endowment for Democracy – Thailand (2021): https://www.ned.org/region/asia/thail…
SCMP – US to offer millions in new funds to take on China: https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/…
US Mission to ASEAN – About YSEALI: https://asean.usmission.gov/about-yse…
Bloomberg – Thailand Needs Hyperloop, Not China-Built High-Speed Rail, Junta Critic Says: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl…
Reuters – Thailand to probe Thaksin’s deadly anti-drug war: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-th…
NYT – In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/wo…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WJOFH7yNkU
