The recent military coup staged by the military in Thailand against former prime minister Sinawatra after weeks of protests and riots by thai people in the streets of Bangkok must not be seen as an isolated fact, but within the changing geopolitics that is happening in Asia now, such as events like recent election of Mr Nodi of the BJP in India, recent explosion in Urumqi, Xinjiang province in China, as well as the recurrent tensions between China and its neighbors around the South China Sea, rich in oil and gas reserves, as well as geopolitical movements by Washington in Southeast Asia, which aims to circumvent at the end China, linked as well as the nuclear longstanding standoff with North Korea, which altogether represent an asian continent changing. It is not the first time that Thailand experience political and financial crisis, being this country the starting point of the asian financial crisis in 1997 when its national currency the baht sank spreading across the whole region almost. Now Thailand crisis could spill over its borders, beaming and proyecting instability and political risks, though so far the situation is under tight control of the military wing. Events in Asia cant be considered and analyzed isolated, even more so that Washington, Moscow, and Beijing have huge geopolitical interests in this area, be them economic, political, etc, and it shouldnt be awkard and strange if this coup has foreign support and backing, just for the sake of adding more uncertainty and instability to the region, weakening its whole economy, and to hit a harsh blow to the regional ambitions of China.
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