Thai Foreign Policy at a Low Point, Experts Say

By Thai PBS 26 October 2021

Thailand still has opportunities to rejuvenate its foreign policy and diplomacy, which have fallen to their “lowest point” in living memory, despite the need to play a role amid intense superpower rivalry and geopolitical disorder, a panel of experts said.

Words such as “go with the flow”, “missing in action”, “excessive defensiveness”, “lacking backbone”, “lack of narrative”, “inferiority complex” and “inward looking nationalism” were the way Thailand’s foreign policy was described by webinar panelists.

Myanmar, human rights values, geographical advantages, alongside unique past relations with the superpowers, were cited as among the opportunities for Thailand to seize…