Both Nations’ Best Interest By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the world’s alliances are being recalibrated and old friends have proven themselves unreliable, one bilateral relationship is ready to be reborn and reenergized: China and Thailand. Historically linked by cultural affinity, economic interdependence, and regional interest, the two countries are now exceptionally well positioned to move their relationship in a more ...
Rule of Law or Geopolitical Rorschach Test By Mehmet Enes Beşer The recent forced repatriation of 40 Chinese nationals from Thailand—more than a decade after entering a state of legal limbo—should have been viewed as a case of overdue humanitarian closure and successful international coordination. Instead, it became one more hot-button issue in increasingly binary geostrategic discourse. The West, and ...