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of the 1937 militaristic, japan started a full scale invasion of china. the invading army was rapidly advancing towards the capital of the republic of china, of the time, the city of nod z, leaving behind the burned down villages and thousands of the dead. on december 13th, the japanese occupied 9 z and states the real massacre. for 6 weeks, the invaders exterminated the civilian population. they carried out mass executions, rates, women, and were engaged, been merciless robbery. ruthless competition of 2 officers of the imperial army team a guide and su yoshi no doubt gained particular notoriety. they competed with each other as to who would be the fastest to kill $100.00 chinese with
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a sword. this monstrous competition was widely reported in the japanese press. the non z massacre claims the lives of about 300000 people and became one of the largest crimes against humanity in the world history. after world war 2, manufactures advance of the address of the phase trial. however, the commander of the japanese army in the non seeing operation, freezes, yasu eco, a socket was able to escape the responsibility due to the interference of the american administration. the hello on manila chan you are tuned into modus operandi is a south east asian country known for its beautiful beaches. its food popular among foodies all around the world. thailand is the objects today after
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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 comers, thailand. summer 2023 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
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far east thailand has long been viewed as a given by much of washington's powerful. so the last few years that 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, in asia spring like fear of spring, it was not for joining us to discuss is writer and scholar with expertise in asian pacific affairs is a researcher, an 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 sauce throngs of people protesting in bangkok as well as in the
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smaller towns across the country. over the parliamentary elections, which initially a young newcomer 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 election process as 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,
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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 $250.00 votes, that is for a total of $75250.00 of those votes are from the upper house and the upper 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,
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a like with various conservative parties. they created a block that allowed them to elect 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, early america. 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 rather 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 the, you know, 9th of the military nor the monarchy was happy with him. and it's, you know,
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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 monic in the military a closely tied. they have a conservative faction. 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 boxed off. the us said that it was not interfering in the election. and that's uh, you know,
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a dead signal that it was. and 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 gonna focus on fixing income in a quality promot eligibility to rights and address other discontent among the young type progressives. 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 west and influence. but as i said, you know, the military and the monarchy still have tremendous power. and as i said,
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it's also a country which is largely ruled by political craddick legs who a lie 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. they help the government previously uh, 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 for my product manager at top 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,
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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. busy or it's very, very capitalist. there is a venue of useful progressive isn't 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 juggle relationships with both china and the us. we'll discuss it when we return with k j. no. so type the m o will be right back. the
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the in 1941 with the nazis health relation, ultra nationalists, the was dashes proclaimed the independent state of croatia. shortly off, the seizing power. they built the scene of us concentration camp a place associated with the worst of trustees 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 and political opponents of the fascist regime.
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conditions in the san of us come with a renders the gods tortured to arise and the prisoners they send them your constitution, temps. so most of them died. it was incredible genocide. the
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the release of come to the russian states. never as tight as i'm one of the most sense community best ingles, all sense and up the in the 65 with the keys, 195 must be the one else holes. question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin machine, the states on the rush to day and split the r t. suppose next, even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube tv services. what question did you say? even closer to the
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the welcome back to the m. o i manila chant, oscio. that's short for the association of south east asian nations. is both an economic block as well as a political one of thailand is one of the founding members of i see on today. the members include thailand, cambodia, brew night indonesia, louse, malaysia,
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myanmar and the philippines and singapore. and let's not forget vietnam. 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,
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under their new president volleyball 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 young leaders back in 2022. america is certainly not a member of i see 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 you countries on that side as possible for very specific geo, strategic and geo political reasons. the answering countries essentially, you know,
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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 of straits in 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 young countries to align with it. but as you point out, the, as young countries have their own agenda, you know, they are, they have many divergent 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, as you and countries on the spectrum, you know, the countries that are most firmly in the us court would clearly be philippines.
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and then we can think of the more capitalist state singapore, malaysia birthday, which are, you know, it's slightly leaning towards the us and then you have indonesia. and yeah, and ma, thailand, vietnam, you know, which out more in the center there. balance here gets the us and china, but also thailand, sorry, vietnam, you know, has strong party to party relations and they have that phone up for now. strategy, which is to say the strongly, i think a more of a chord this strongly aligned with china. and of course allows with its recent b, r. i high speed rail. and cambodia, which is always being a strong ally of china, is more strongly in china as 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,
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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 countries in southeast asia perpetrated the genocide, indonesia, you know, allow us cambodia in vietnam or, you know, subject to genocide or was thailand, you know, it 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 task it's 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 the us club colony for a very, very long time. you know, it's dictators were a us pop. it's a and
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a much more recently, super day has been bought back up by an american company. remember at the height of its presence it was larger than the country a single forward. 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 of 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 horrendous. the us should remove all of those ponds and pay, you know,
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massive respiration. but clearly china is doing uh, you know, supporting blouse, 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 chan. osha 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,
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i under marco's now safely under the some of washington thailand, under thomas in now looking to expand business deals with china. if tylen 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 as you and countries as very, very important simply all the investment, the any d 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 ment accrued there i think that remains to be
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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, great kind of hard core advisors that you can recognize as regime change and boxes . 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 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, or 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 tough, good relation. china,
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a lot of the 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 future's multi polarity. they 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, driven by domestic conflicts and it's clearly, it's diplomacy even it's kind of, you know, hard core strength 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 economies be able to for just own path without any
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ex darnell interference. 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 on the sway of us neo colonial influence. 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 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,
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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 kj know is and asia pacific specialist and contributor to the book capitalism on a ventilator. right, that's going to do it for this episode of modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your host manila chan. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next time to figure out the m. o.
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