Thailand is not a neutral country

I am surprised that “security experts” made this statement. Thailand is not a neutral state, although Laos and Cambodia oddly enough lay claim to be. The definition of a permanently neutral power is a sovereign state that is bound by international treaty to be neutral towards the belligerents of all future wars. Neutralism or a neutralist policy is a foreign-policy position wherein a state intends to remain neutral in future wars. Non-alignment is the implementation of neutralism by avoiding military alliances.

I wonder how Chulalongkorn University security expert Professor Panitan Wattanayagorn manages to relate his claim of Thai neutrality with the fact that Thailand was granted the status of a major non-Nato ally at the end of 2003. Perhaps there was a translation glitch.

Johnny Thoyts

Pranburi