Thailand's global standing at a low point
published : 4 May 2018 at 04:35
newspaper section: News
When the fourth anniversary of Thailand's coup comes to pass later this month, Thailand's foreign relations will be one of the many costs to be counted from the military government. While the Thai administration of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha insists otherwise, Thailand's international standing has sunk to its lowest point. One of the immediate tasks facing the elected government after the poll will be to rectify and restore Thailand's international reputation.
The latest reminder of how regrettable Thai diplomatic positioning has become is the upcoming United States-North Korea summit between President Donald Trump and President Kim Jong-un. As a clutch of locations for this extraordinary and one of a kind head-to-head meeting were floated, Thailand's foreign ministry made a cheesy pitch.
Thitinan Pongsudhirak teaches at the Faculty of Political Science and directs the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University.
Thitinan Pongsudhirak
An associate professor at Chulalongkorn University
An associate professor and director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science, with more than 25 years of university service. He earned his MA from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and PhD from the London School of Economics where he was awarded the UK’s top dissertation prize in 2002.
