the end of hospitalized decision to be the defender of isis. the id f has operational plans for changing the security situation in the north. a un peacekeeping mission stationed along the border since 1978 has witness to wars and numerous other conflicts. and they war things can escalate in an instant what we cannot predict. so as i mention is a miscalculation because after 6 weeks, a conflict and daily exchanges or fires and could potentially lead to a miscalculation to have never worked with the state. and that could definitely bring this conflict to a more regional company, the role of the leadership of the mission of the 10 in general, the last battle in keeping these uh, coordination entities on with the bar. do you see no in order to de escalate attention? but also to prevent a very dangerous misunderstanding that goes of the 2006 more serve as a hunting reminder of the toll conflicts in this regions can take, leaving

a lasting store on both of the landscape and the collective members. 1 1 1 1 the . 1 the as missiles continued to fly across the border and the tensions saw, the region staggers on the brink of a potentially devastating conflict gas. and that can artsy been lived in a while and today is going underground. adoption red tons, the holocaust survivor. and we're known from a special discount for much se, if he thinks the western world is turning a blind eye to the plight of the police,

the needs of others. throughout the day you're on rti, and here's part, what's the head? why is it so difficult to even talk about foam or amongst palestinians in the parliaments of nato countries? european countries, fuel or fear, offender of guilt about what happened? did you lose in europe? that's one stream. but the other end so that there's a fear that by talking about person and trauma, you somehow and then initiating or invalidating jewish trauma. but there's a more major reason which is that the, the english speaking countries, particularly where are routed and colonialism. they all participate in the colonial project. what i'm saying is that these countries either were rooted in founded in colonialism or have colonial policy themselves. so the colonial mindset dominates less than thinking is riley is indeed an apartheid state does not justify events

like october. the 7th, i mean nelson mandela's death. now i have interviewed him and of course he believed in the use of violence against civilians in the fight against apartheid south africa, not nothing justifies october the 7th. so in the west and media um, every attempt is made to the store size of the so like it happened in a vacuum. it's not a justification to say that it did not happen in a vacuum. and it happened after decades of collective, brutal trauma visited on the palestinians. that's ongoing. the lots are rough, all of the days. big new stories for now i'll be back again of the top with all the developments to keep you in the know this for most scope. this is for to the introduction. the

hello. i'm vanilla chan. you are tuned into modus operandi. it's a south east asian country known for its beautiful beaches. it's food popular among foodies all around the world. thailand is the subject today after a series of failed attempts to form a coalition government, the country's parliamentary system roiled in drama from an exiled former p. m. to billy there's western back. new commerce, thailand, summer 2022. the elections were full of twists and turns, but now the dust has settled. so which path will thailand track from here? we'll discuss it. all right, let's get into the m o. the

. it's a country popular among westerners as a vacation spot to swim along its true, quite shores. a place that offered many familiar western style creature comforts, such as lavish resorts, find dining and things of that nature. while still tapping into the mistake of the far east thailand has long been viewed as a given by much of washington's powerful. so the last few years and administrations, the tie had been an after thought. in that time, the country navigated soft cou attempts economic downturns and the death of their king. so as the bite in administration hibbits to the pacific and turns this attention to asia, a new uprising of young voters threatened the states political stability. coincidence? well, an asia spring like fear of spring,

it was not for joining us to discuss is writer and scholar with expertise in asian pacific affairs. he's a researcher and activist, also a contributor to the book capitalism on a ventilator k. j no is here to weigh in. so k, j, summer of 2023 saw throngs of people protesting in bangkok as well as in the smaller towns across the country. over the parliamentary elections, which initially a young new commer to politics, paid a lim, german shot, the leader of the, the winning progressive move forward party. that's their name. he won the prime minister seat. it's rumored that the king of thailand blocked his ascension, which caused the outrage among voters and, and threatened political stability. what did you make of the wild twists and turns the last few months in thailand's election process? well, you know, thailand's electrical process is always had incredible twists and turns and often

it's followed by a crew. but in this election, 76 parties read in order to gain 500 seats in the lower house and 250 seats in the opera house. but essentially the uh, in order to elect a prime minister, they need to get 376 seats or votes to elect. uh, and uh, essentially what happened was that the, uh, move forward party. uh, got, they had a good showing. they got a 150 votes out of 500 lower house, uh seats. uh the 2nd party if you tie got a 141. and essentially, uh, you know, move forward created a coalition of 8 parties. they were able to get 312 members of parliament on their side. they thought they had enough votes, but they didn't. and this is because to

a $150.00 votes, that is for a total of $75250.00 of those votes are from the opera house. and the of the house is appointed by the military. and so they didn't get enough boats and the coalition fell apart and the rival few party took it's a $141.00 seats alike with various conservative parties. they created a block that allowed them to it, like the prime minister. now that said a few other points, peter was clearly the american tentative, he was very, very us aligned. he was trained at harvard kennedy, which, you know, we can't understand is very much a national security state academy star. the american, i said a very, very western agenda. one of the things that he was trying to do was he was trying to do away with military conscription. he wants to demilitarize, which rented a file of the military and it's conservative of bankers. and also he wanted to

pass last measure state rule that is to undermine that would have undermined the power of the monarchy. you know, it's a parliamentary monarchy. and so because of that clearly, you know, 9th of the military nor the monarchy was happy with him. and it's, you know, i think it's reasonable to assume that they put pressure on the opera house, the 250 members of the senate. and they were politically instrumental in blocking this coalition from getting through. so yes, did the king interfere, you know, the monkey and the military a closely tied, they have the conservative section that is the real holder power as they are in many parliamentary systems around the world, including australia and the u. k. and so essentially what we can see is, you know, this is how political, political traffic aristocratic parliamentary is function. they have

a pageant or the need of a democratic process. but at the end of the day, things fall back in line into the hands of those who really have power and the us which wanted to intervene. and this election actually found itself box stuff. the us said that it was not interfering in the election. and that's uh, you know, a dead signal that it was. so the p, m. c is now filled by a real estate tycoon throughout the tabby scene of the populace to tie party. that party actually came in 2nd place in the parliamentary elections. few ty, renege on a pledge that it would not cooperate with pro military parties who were complicit in in cruise in early 2, thousands that's alleged. but here we are. thomas in purports to be a moderate and you know, is going to focus on fixing income in a quality promot eligibility to rights and address other discontent among the young

type progressive. is this a winning strategy for this region in asia? you know, i'm not sure about that. you know, certainly, you know, there is a kind of a useful way of a progressive vision which is strongly weston influence. but as i said, you know, the military and the monarchy still have tremendous power. and as i said, it's also a country which is largely ruled by political craddick legs who ally with the military and the monarchy. so at the end of the day, you know, these are the forces that control the government. you know, the official military uh, uh, related parties, the united tie nation of a healthy government previously the to power the crew that asked it should. oh, i tried the eldest. yeah. yeah, i'm a sion electra, the eldest daughter of tax and, and now you know, as you point to sorta is a former real estate develop,

the was former product manager at prop 10 gamble. and so he also has connections to the us. but he also has very, very strong connections with the us in electra dynasty. they, you know, it's their party essentially. and so i think this kind of, uh, you know, coalition is about as good as it gets. he talks about compassionate capitalism. he was a real estate or real estate developer who became very, very wealthy through, you know, massive real estate deals clearly facilitated through, you know, high level context. and so, you know, i think at the core, it's very, very capitalist. there is a venue of useful progressive is and that, you know, is designed to win over some of the younger generation. but i think at the end of the day, you know, it's essentially a status quote, conservative and very,

very close to the powers that be coming up next asi on countries divided on how to jungle relationships with both china and the us. we'll discuss it when we return with k. j knows to type the m o will be right back. the on the 1941 with the nazis health relation, ultra nationalist, the was dashes, the claim, the independent state of croatia. shortly off, the seizing power. they build the scene of us concentration camp a place associated with the worst atrocities committed in yugoslavia during world war 2. use dash is used to come system to isolate and exterminate subs, roma, jews, and other non catholic minorities,

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most protect this phone existence was on the or the the welcome back to the m. o i, manila champ, oscio. that's short for the association of south east asian nations. is both an

economic block as well as a political one. thailand is one of the founding members of i see on today the members include thailand, cambodia, brew night indonesia, louse, malaysia, myanmar and the philippines and singapore. and let's not forget good now. so jointly the block has around $660000000.00 people and a combined gross g d, p of $3.00 trillion dollars. that's according to the council on foreign relations with the growing strength of this block. it's no surprise that the us wanted to have a chat with them to asia pacific expert and research are k j no is back with us. now we should note his latest talk at space for peace. dot org is also available now. so k, j, many of these countries, they have an awesome, they have divergent priorities,

even oppositional alliances in the way of foreign policy. for example, thailand's neighbor laos completed a major railway system with china and is working with russia to expand their international airport. the philippines, however, under their new president bung by marcos is expanding u. s. military bases on the their islands. and the ties are now doing a visa, free travel deal with china. to the dismay of the us after the us hosted a what they called a special summit for us, the on leaders back in 2022. america is certainly not a member of c on. so, what do you suppose was biden's purpose in hosting that special summit? yes. so you know, the purpose of the assay and some it was to pull as many as you in countries into the us orbit as possible. because as you know, the us is in circling china,

it wants to contain china and eventually escalate to kinetic war. and it needs as many as young countries on that side as possible for very specific jo, strategic and jo, political reasons, the answering countries essentially, you know, surround the south china sea, which is the key chart point that the us military strategy sees as essential for choking out china, this is what they call as the bible. as the bible involves choking off them a lot, go straight to the south china sea and they need the support of the country. so it would also like to create a land base along the west and a line of china as well. but all of this is to say that the us once as the on countries to alive with it. but as you point out, the, as young countries have their own agenda, you know, they are, they have many diversion priorities, but the key priority for that is to develop and in order to develop

a china is enable, your neighbor is not going away. they need to have good relations with them. and so if you look at the us in countries on the spectrum, you know, the countries that have most firmly in the us court would clearly be philippines. and then we can think of the more capitalist state singapore, malaysia birthday, which are, you know, a slightly leaning towards the us and then you have indonesia. yeah. and mar, thailand, vietnam, you know, which out more in the center. they're balancing against the us and china. but also thailand, sorry, vietnam, you know, has strong party to party relations and they have the phone for no strategy. which is to say the, the strongly, i think a more of a core, the strongly align with china. and of course, allows with its recent b, r i a high speed rail and cambodia which is always being a strong ally of china,

is more strongly in china is court. and so i think that the us is not successful in trying to create this alliance. a certainly the language that it's using is not helpful because everybody knows that when the us comes, you get to lecture. when china comes, you get a port or you know, a highway. you know, it's that contrast between building and bombing the us as pond, you know, many of the country is in southeast asia. it perpetrated the genocide, indonesia, you know, allow us cambodia and vietnam or, you know, subject to genocide or was thailand, you know, was pulled into the vietnam, moore. and of course, the philippines is kind of the odd man out the odd person out, because clearly it seems to have cost its lot with the united states. it's,

you know, uh, authorized for new bases all designed to wage war against china. and this comes out of its colonial history. was it us cool a colony for a very, very long time? you know, it's dictate, as for us pop, it's a and a much more recently souping bay has been bought back up by an american company. remember at the height of its presence it was larger than the country, a single ford, that's a us space which is larger than a country that gives you a sense of how large and powerful us presence was. yeah, in the way of us lecture or chinese development. i mean in wow says case. you get a 10000000000 dollar rail versus 10 years of secret bombings? yes, absolutely. us at 280000000 bombs dropped on it. you know, 19000000 plus the bonds are still unexploded ordnance and when the chinese build that high speed rail through allows and you can do a one to one correspondence between poverty and allows and where ordinance is

unexploded because you know, the, the, the parents work, the fields and they get the arms so that lives blown off. and then the children can go to school and they're working in the fields and they get blown up, etc. it's or rent us should remove all of those ponds and pay, you know, massive respiration. but clearly, china is doing a, you know, supporting louse, you know, they remove the bones as they were building the high speed rail. and that's, you know, kind of, one of the most extraordinary engineering and, you know, structural engineering tasks, accomplishments of the 21st century in my opinion. and in foreign policy magazines, june 2022 issue. they reported that thailand was drifting towards china's influence . now back then, in the same article, they said the same thing about the philippines under to turn to. and this worried washington thailand, last prime minister, chance came to power after

a field to attempt in 2014, reportedly backed by washington. it looks like these power play rules in thailand, in the philippines, and now flipped on washington in the last year, the p, i under marco's now safely under the some of washington thailand, under thomas in now looking to expand business deals with china. if tyler continues on this path towards improve relations with china, can we see another us fomented cool there? you know, as the, the us pivots away from ukraine and, and focuses on asia. i mean, how long can the us maintain this balancing act with all these different i see on countries to maintain, you know, in their sphere of influence will certainly be used as the design, the volition to maintain a sphere of influence. they see the idea of countries as very, very important simply all the investment,

the energy put into thailand and the support of, you know, uh, a move forward is clearly a signal to the us has very, very strong interest will day for meant accrued there. i think that remains to be seen. i would say, never say never. what you have to do is you have to watch who is appointed as ambassador. if you see in a master who is a symbolic appointment, you know that they're not serious, but there are, you know, very kind of hard core advisors that you can recognize as regime change ambassadors and they usually have a track record of instigating brushing. change a cruise elsewhere, and so i would watch that very, very carefully. uh and also, you know, watch any signals or statements from the state department uh will uh, thailand continued to improve relations with china. well, i think absolutely, you know, as you know, as we, you know, pointed out, you know, your neighbors,

you can't move away from your neighbors. china is your neighbor from a pragmatic standpoint, from a business standpoint. and you know, this leadership is clearly a business leadership. they need to do business with china. they need talk good relation, china, a lot of them military procurement is, is from china as well. so there's a security dimension to it as well. and so i think the thailand i think is stabilizing, they see what the future is. they see the futures multiple, i already see the futures good relations, china. and i think everybody's aware that you know, the us, the us empire is flailing. it's, you know, riven by domestic conflicts and it's clearly it's diplomacy even it's kind of, you know, hard core, tread based diplomacy doesn't seem to be working anymore to now broadly looking at thailand under this new coalition government that seems to be more interested in

working with its immediate neighbors, what sort of, i guess we can call it new asia. do you hope to see in the coming years? i mean, will thailand, which is one of the regions top economy is able to forge its own path without any ex darnell interference. and you know, that is my deep and fervent hope. you know, thailand has long a thailand and many other countries in southeast asia at long being under the sway of us neo colonial info and certainly thailand after the 1997. uh, you know, asian prices. you know, it was forced to go massive restructuring. you know, there's a large part of thailand's economy tourism, which is also geared towards a kind of neo colonial relationship with the west. i would like to see, you know, some real indigenous development development in education and technology and

industry that allows the countries not only to be more self sufficient, but self sufficient in the sense that they are you know, liberating themselves from a weston colonial yoke. and they do trade with themselves, they build their own networks and relationships, and they have good relations, china, and most of all that they avoid being pulled into this cold and nearly hawk more that the us is trying to foment in the region. i think china, the b r i and the rising global cells systems, the organizational multi polarity, are really the way to go. and i'm sure that the leadership in many of these countries, many who are very, very, you know, astute leaders see things in the same way that i do k j. now unfortunately, we have to leave it right there. thank you so much for your expertise. k, j know is an asian pacific specialist and contributor to the book capitalism on

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