More recently, Bangkok has employed a strategy similar to Singapore’s, using multilateral institutions and trade agreements to draw the major powers into the region as a means of ensuring stability. It has signed FTAs with Australia, China, and India, and is undertaking negotiations with Japan and the United States. Significantly, Thailand is ideally placed to promote pan-regional institutionalism as it sits at the crossroads of Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia Hence, while both
Singapore and Thailand are looking to cultivate India as another potential
great power that will take an interest in the region, it is Bangkok that has been
more active diplomatically