Recent visits by the foreign ministers of China and the US created lots of buzz among the Thai public and diplomatic community regarding the direction of Thai foreign policy. Many questions were raised but no satisfactory answers were given.
Critics have constantly faulted the Prayut government's quiet diplomacy on all issues as a weakness for its failure to produce tangible results. Others, however, have a different view, citing Thailand's relations with great powers as stable and getting stronger by the day and its unpublicised role in transnational issues, ie, sustainable development, as pretty good.
