1219: The trouble in Thailand includes China's bad actors. @Michael_Yon, @GordonGChang,

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 2:49 a.m.

Image: From the Kingdom of Siam  (Koninklijk vaartuig met 120 roeiers te Siam [Thailand])   Michael Yon: @Michael_Yon, war correspondent;andGordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re:  Chinese Communist Party using divide-and-conquer tactics n multiple countries, from Okinawa to Hong Kong to all of Southeast Asia: “Use only your local dialect!”  Thai people are kind and cordial, but man can they fight. They’ll straight-up overthrow a government; Thais, in a situation such as at the Capitol, will just take it over.  The police fear the army, and [everybody] fears the people.  Thailand is a focus of Beijing, being important, incl geographically, and it has been a US ally, which China wants to weaken. “One mat, one pillow”: Chinese enter a new country with these, then take over all national commerce. Much resented. Over the decades, Bangkok has moved much closer to Beijing.  Overseas Chinese in Thailand consider themselves to be thoroughly Thai.  US relations with Thailand go back about 170 years; one king offered Lincoln elephants for the US Civil War. . .  So many retired Greens Berets and CIA in Thailand, One reason Thailand produces to much good coffee and flowers is that the US helped fund a shift out of opium. Chinese visitors in Thailand spit in restaurants, which much offends Thais and creates bad feelings. Thais are fiercely independent.  https://www.khon2.com/international/thailands-prime-minister-survives-no-confidence-vote/