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Thailand
Index
The Thai delegation to the Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization (SEATO) conference in Bangkok in 1955
Courtesy National Archives
Diplomacy has served Thailand well, enabling the kingdom to
manage its foreign affairs flexibly and relatively unencumbered
by intrusions of major foreign powers. Remarkably adaptive to
shifts in international currents, Thailand has almost always
aligned itself with the dominant power in the region in its
effort to ensure security, increase trade, and preserve national
independence. In the 1980s, its primary concern was to normalize
relations with Cambodia and Laos--relations that were complicated
by the Vietnamese military presence in these countries.
Data as of September 1987
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