• The U.S.A. played a “clean” role of friendship for Siam at
Siam’s difficult time in negotiating with Britain & France
after the 2nd Word War.
• However, later in their fear of Communism – the cold
war time, the U.S.A. did everything to protect its
country from Communist influence --- they provided
Thailand a great amount of aids, eventually made
Thailand a capitalist country (ประเทศทุนนิยม)
• The U.S.A. introduced the concept of “development”