Beijing’s soft power illustrates it’s resilience in the thai crisis in which china has gained a great deal of trust and respect from Bangkok. This trust is translated into even more cordial economic and military relations between Thailand and china. As a result of their FTa, total exports from Thailand to china have risen from us$11.8 billion in 2006 to us$16.2 billion in 2008; at the same time, imports from china grew from us$13.6 billion to us$20.1 billion in 2006 and us$3.9 billion in 2008.