Thailand: Key ASEAN Nation Emerges from COVID-19
The Kingdom of Thailand plays a central role in the Southeast Asian ASEAN economic bloc. It has a population of nearly 70 million, the second largest economy in the region and hosts a key leg of China's One Belt, One Road (OBOR initiative including high speed rail that will connect China (via Laos to Malaysia and beyond. Thus, regional recovery in the wake...
As Thailand Fights Covid-19, Students Vow to Continue Chaos for "Democracy"
Despite the unprecedented damage global panic over coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19 has caused to nations around the world, so-called "pro-democracy" protesters have vowed to immediately resume street mobs as soon as emergency measures are lifted in Thailand. The move will almost certainly contribute to socioeconomic instability...
Philippines: Crawling Out From Under America's Shadow?
President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has announced his intentions to end the nation's security agreement with the United States, specifically its Visiting Forces Agreement. The move puts into question America's military presence in the Philippines and the influence it projects across Asia with it. In particular, it further complicates US attempts...
Coronavirus Exposes Hong Kong's Fake "Pro-Democracy" Mobs
While the large street mobs plaguing Hong Kong's streets have more or less subsided, the foreign-funded movement and its supporters continue seeking every opportunity to perpetuate their agenda. This agenda, despite the Western media claiming it is centred on advancing human rights and democracy while opposing Beijing's...
US Complains as Cambodia Pivots Toward China
US State Department-funded front "Radio Free Asia" (RFA recently complained about plans to proceed with joint Chinese-Cambodian military exercises despite the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. According to Khmer Times, this year's joint exercises will include up to 200 Chinese personnel and over 2,000 personnel from Cambodia. According...
Coronavirus Tests China, Temps America
Biology has done what malicious US foreign policy aimed at China has failed to do for years; complicate China's relations along its peripheries (and the rest of the world for that matter, particularly in Southeast Asia. In Thailand, contrary to popular belief, Chinese tourists make up the vast majority of those visiting the Kingdom. In Thailand, contrary to popular...
US Propaganda Reorganises in Cambodia
US State Department-funded and directed Voice of America recently noted that its networks in the Southeast Asian country of Cambodia are reorganising, though no in such straightforward terms. VOA's article, "Journalists Form A New Press Association, Plan to Protect At Risk Reporters," claims: The development comes amid an ongoing...
Thailand: The Lingering Spectre of US Colour Revolutions
Thailand's opposition is openly backed by powerful foreign interests, particularly those in Washington. As the opposition attempts to secure power and help serve as a vector for Western special interests, the spectre of a Western-sponsored "colour revolution" increasingly looms over Thailand's future. Thailand is a key Southeast Asian nation, with the second largest economy in...
Laos: West's War on Asian Development
At face value, the Financial Times' article, "Laos’s Belt and Road project sparks questions over China ambitions," reads like a politically-motivated attack on infrastructure development in Asia. Because it is. The article's subheading, "High-speed train line in one of Asia’s poorest countries may benefit Beijing more than locals," alone contradicts...
US Seeks Thai Opposition for Anti-China Alliance at ASEAN Summit
Why is the US talking "democracy, human rights and justice" with an opposition who lost recent elections, abuses human rights and works daily to undermine and evade justice? Time was precious at the 35th ASEAN Summit. Leaders from across Southeast Asia converged on Bangkok, Thailand to discuss economics, diplomacy...
Asia Unites Against US Coup Attempt
The nations of Southeast Asia have united in efforts to prevent a US-backed coup aimed at fellow-Southeast Asian state Cambodia. Through a combination of travel bans and detentions across the region in late October and early November, Southeast Asia may have thwarted attempts by Washington-backed opposition front, the Cambodia National Rescue...
Why Thailand is Buying Russian Helicopters
Beginning in 2011, the Kingdom of Thailand began replacing aging US helicopters not with newer US-built models, but with Russian and Italian systems instead. This includes Russian Mi-17 medium twin-turbine transport helicopters and several AgustaWestland AW149's and AW139's (for transporting VIPs. According to a January 2019 article in...