Thai-Chinese Relations: Security and Strategic Partnership

• Main Author: Chinwanno, Chulacheeb
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87949; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40008
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Strategic and security considerations played very important roles in Thai-Chinese relations. Thai elite in the past were suspicious of China after the Chinese Communist Party established the People’s Republic of China in October 1949. The relationship afterwards was tense and antagonistic. Before th...