Embassy in Bangkok received a new ambassador in Robert F. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai signed a bilateral communiqué they extolled as an expansion of the “communiqué in Washington 60 years ago that solidified the US-Thai alliance,” signed by then-Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman and then-U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed military modernization and interoperability with his Thai counterparts. Air Force, which had expressed concern about increasing Thai-Chinese air force cooperation since 2015.ĭuring the summer, the United States stepped up its ground game in Thailand with a series of high-level visits. An agreement in June concerning technology that detects threats to military installations was little-noticed but significant, as it was negotiated by the U.S. Thailand then joined 12 other nations in signing on to Biden’s new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity. The Thais then remained in town for the U.S.-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Special Summit, the first ever to be held in Washington, D.C., and effectively an apology for the Trump administration’s treatment of Thailand during its ASEAN chair year in 2019. Indo-Pacific Strategy-the first to be released publicly from the White House-Thailand was mentioned on page one, and the first-ever combined U.S.-Thailand Strategic and Defense Dialogue took place in Washington in May. In February, in the Biden administration’s report on the U.S. Last year was clearly the United States’ strongest in Thailand since the coup. Regardless of its outcome, the old adage that “politics stops at the water’s edge” is certain to hold concerning the kingdom’s prevailing foreign policy orientation toward China, and to result in further weakening of its treaty alliance with the United States. This weekend, Thailand will hold its first national election in more than four years, and only its second since a coup d’état nine years ago.
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