Inflection EP11: US Encircling China - Target Thailand

Week of August 2-6, 2021

Inflection is a weekly show featuring Angelo Giuliano and Brian Berletic, discussing recent headlines and in-depth discussion of topics shaping the shift from West to East and unipolarism to multipolarism.

This week we continue our discussion about the US strategy of encircling and containing China and focus on Thailand - a key partner of Beijing’s in the Belt and Road Initiative as well as a keen buyer of Chinese defense systems and a nation that counts China as its largest and most important trade partner.

We also touch on ongoing efforts by the US to destabilize both Hong Kong and China.

News:

Daniel Dumbrill on Twitter regarding US efforts to push Uyghurs back into poverty:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1417653122357370884
Al Jazeera - HK man sentenced to 9 years in first national security law case:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/30/hong-kong-man-sentenced-to-9-years-in-first-national-security-law-case
Taiwan News - Retired Taiwan general tells military to overthrow DPP, surrender to China:
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4261383
Taiwan News - Retired general says Taiwan's combat capabilities are ‘close to none’:
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4021844
Global Times - GT Voice: China could constructively facilitate Afghanistan’s economic reconstruction:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1230032.shtml

Main Topic:

East-West Center, Washington DC - U.S. and Thailand Perspectives on Geostrategic Landscape and Regional Architecture:
https://youtu.be/nMw_BgpYzdo
US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - MENENDEZ, DURBIN, COLLEAGUES INTRODUCE SENATE RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THAILAND’S PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT (2020):
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/ranking/release/menendez-durbin-colleagues-introduce-senate-resolution-in-support-of-thailands-pro-democracy-movement
Full Senate Resolution (PDF):
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/DAV20G50%20-%20Thailan.pdf
BBC - Milk Tea Alliance: Twitter creates emoji for pro-democracy activists:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56676144
The Nation Thailand - iLaw launches petition for charter rewrite:
https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/30392491
iLaw - About Us:
https://ilaw.or.th/about
US National Endowment for Democracy - Thailand 2020:
https://www.ned.org/region/asia/thailand-2020/

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