Thailand has been quietly sliding into China's warm, embracing arms. Most Thai cabinet ministers, including many former Prime Ministers and powerful businesses in Thailand,have significant investments in China Thailand's Charoen Pokphand, one of Southeast Asia's largest companies, has been doing business in China since 1949, Bangkok Bank still has the largest foreign branch on Shanghai's Bund waterfront, and only recently have a few other foreign banks gained token footholds on China's preeminent business address, Activities between Thai and Chinese business conglomerates were regularly conducted, with the exchange of visits and the sharing business information, The Thai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce highlights on its website that all business activities must remain apolitical. in the cultural realm, Patrick Jory argued that since the Chinese language has been reintroduced into Thailand's schools and universities after a long period of official sanction, Chinese popular culture is much celebrated, and imported Chin soap operas have been highly popular" New Chinese language schools have been mushrooming in Bangkok and in major cities throughout the kingdom. "Thailand has been taking the Chinese language seriously, Michael Vatikiotis wrote,"so seriously that Thaksin asked China to send teachers'
In January 2006, China's Deputy Education Minister Zhang Xin-sheng was in Bangkok to sign an agreement to help train 1,000 Mandarin language teachers every y r for Thailand-China also offered 100 scholarships for Thai students to study in China, and it dispatched 500 young volunteers to teach Chinese in Thailand According to the Chinese Ministry of Education Thai students studying in China reached 1,554, making them the sixth largest group of foreign students in the country, after South Korea, Japan, the United States, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The number of Thai students studying in Chinese universities has grown six-or seven-fold within the past few years," said Tekhua Pung, director of a local Chinese-language teaching school Ultimately, bending with the Chinese wind seems to correspond with a new surge in the Thai public aware ness about China's rise. A recent poll showed that more than 70 percent of Thais considered China as Thailand's most important external influence and wanted the Government to continue to craft a China-favored policy for a closer relationship with Beijing.
Overall, Thailand's national interests have appeared to be in league with those of China. But at other moments, friction has occurred, although to date none has become severe or damaged Thailand's core national interests and the foundation of its relationship with China. Thailand's policy of exerting influence over its immediate neighbors was sometimes viewed as a deliberate attempt to overcome tense competition from China, which has also been in a similar process of expanding its control over them. For example, Thailand's contract farming program in Laos was said to be initiated to offset similar projects between Laos and China. Currently, Laos produces corn, soybeans, and cardamom under contract farming for export to China, Laos itself has been seeking to reduce its dependence on Thailand and reaching out to China, as well as Vietnam, to help rejuvenate its moribund economy.
After diplomatic normalisation in 1988, China has overwhelmed Laos with financial and technical assistance in an attempt to pull Vientiane into its orbit and out of Thailand's sphere of influence. In another instance, Thailand cooperated with ASEAN in neutralising a perceived Chinese threat, as China and four other ASEAN members (the Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam and Malaysia) have fiercely engaged in territorial claims over various features and ocean space in the
South China Sea, Although Thailand is not one of the claimants, it supported the signing of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea in 2002. This Declaration stresses the need to resolve the territorial and jurisdictional disputes by peaceful means, without resoun of force, through friendly consultations, and negotiations by sovereign states to the threat directly concerned.
Noticing the between Thailand and China, the United States, although growing intimacy Criticised for neglecting Southeast Asia, has not really been a passive Great Power in this part of the world. It has participated in a number of regional frameworks that involve both Thailand and China, such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), and the East Asia Summit (EAS)29 The United States and China have been locked in a new form of"Cold War, involving other Great and Middle Powers in Northeast Asia, a situation O reflected by their disagreement on numerous issues. The problems include nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula, cross-straits relations (China-Taiwan), the American military base in Japan, and human rights violations inside China. I
Thailand has been quietly sliding into China's warm, embracing arms. Most Thai cabinet ministers, including many former Prime Ministers and powerful businesses in Thailand,have significant investments in China Thailand's Charoen Pokphand, one of Southeast Asia's largest companies, has been doing business in China since 1949, Bangkok Bank still has the largest foreign branch on Shanghai's Bund waterfront, and only recently have a few other foreign banks gained token footholds on China's preeminent business address, Activities between Thai and Chinese business conglomerates were regularly conducted, with the exchange of visits and the sharing business information, The Thai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce highlights on its website that all business activities must remain apolitical. in the cultural realm, Patrick Jory argued that since the Chinese language has been reintroduced into Thailand's schools and universities after a long period of official sanction, Chinese popular culture is much celebrated, and imported Chin soap operas have been highly popular" New Chinese language schools have been mushrooming in Bangkok and in major cities throughout the kingdom. "Thailand has been taking the Chinese language seriously, Michael Vatikiotis wrote,"so seriously that Thaksin asked China to send teachers' In January 2006, China's Deputy Education Minister Zhang Xin-sheng was in Bangkok to sign an agreement to help train 1,000 Mandarin language teachers every y r for Thailand-China also offered 100 scholarships for Thai students to study in China, and it dispatched 500 young volunteers to teach Chinese in Thailand According to the Chinese Ministry of Education Thai students studying in China reached 1,554, making them the sixth largest group of foreign students in the country, after South Korea, Japan, the United States, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The number of Thai students studying in Chinese universities has grown six-or seven-fold within the past few years," said Tekhua Pung, director of a local Chinese-language teaching school Ultimately, bending with the Chinese wind seems to correspond with a new surge in the Thai public aware ness about China's rise. A recent poll showed that more than 70 percent of Thais considered China as Thailand's most important external influence and wanted the Government to continue to craft a China-favored policy for a closer relationship with Beijing. Overall, Thailand's national interests have appeared to be in league with those of China. But at other moments, friction has occurred, although to date none has become severe or damaged Thailand's core national interests and the foundation of its relationship with China. Thailand's policy of exerting influence over its immediate neighbors was sometimes viewed as a deliberate attempt to overcome tense competition from China, which has also been in a similar process of expanding its control over them. For example, Thailand's contract farming program in Laos was said to be initiated to offset similar projects between Laos and China. Currently, Laos produces corn, soybeans, and cardamom under contract farming for export to China, Laos itself has been seeking to reduce its dependence on Thailand and reaching out to China, as well as Vietnam, to help rejuvenate its moribund economy. After diplomatic normalisation in 1988, China has overwhelmed Laos with financial and technical assistance in an attempt to pull Vientiane into its orbit and out of Thailand's sphere of influence. In another instance, Thailand cooperated with ASEAN in neutralising a perceived Chinese threat, as China and four other ASEAN members (the Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam and Malaysia) have fiercely engaged in territorial claims over various features and ocean space in the ทะเลจีนใต้ ประเทศไทยแม้ไม่ได้เกี่ยวข้องอย่างใดอย่างหนึ่ง ได้สนับสนุนการลงนามการประกาศบนการดำเนินการของภาคีในทะเลจีนใต้ใน 2002 ประกาศนี้ความเครียดต้องการแก้ไขข้อพิพาทดินแดน และน่าน โดยสงบ ไม่มี resoun ของแรง ผ่านการให้คำปรึกษาเป็นมิตร และเจรจา โดยประเทศกับภัยคุกคามที่เกี่ยวข้องโดยตรง สังเกตเห็นการระหว่างไทยและจีน สหรัฐอเมริกา แม้ว่าปลูกสนิทสนม Criticised ละเลยไม่เฉียง ไม่จริง ๆ ได้กำลังดีแฝงในส่วนนี้ของโลก มันได้เข้าร่วมในจำนวนของกรอบระดับภูมิภาคที่เกี่ยวข้องทั้งไทย และจีน เช่นในเอเชีย-แปซิฟิกเศรษฐกิจความร่วมมือ (APEC), การอาเซียนภูมิภาค Forum (ARF), และการประชุมสุดยอดเอเชียตะวันออก (EAS) 29 สหรัฐอเมริกาและจีนถูกล็อคในรูปแบบใหม่ของ "สงครามเย็น เกี่ยวข้องกับอื่น ๆ ดีและอำนาจกลางในเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ สถานการณ์ O สะท้อนจากพวกเขากันในหลายประเด็น ปัญหาได้แก่การแพร่กระจายนิวเคลียร์บนดาว ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างช่องแคบ (จีนไต้หวัน), ฐานทัพอเมริกันในประเทศญี่ปุ่น และละเมิดสิทธิมนุษยชนภายในประเทศจีน ผม
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