In recent history, although Thailand is not very powerful, but in modern history, it has not suffered colonization by other powers, such a reality does surprise many people, after all, India, which is close to Thailand, has become a colony of Great Britain under the guns of the British, and Thailand was equivalent to the meat of britain at that time, with great danger. It is such a piece of "meat" on the lips, even if the British have coveted it for a long time, there is no way to eat him like India. Many experts in modern history are very interested in such phenomena, and after judging and analyzing the history of the time, experts understand that the reason why Thailand was able to maintain its sovereignty and maintain its initiative in such a chaotic world was because of the cunning and fickleness of the Thai rulers.
Perhaps such a way of dealing with the world will be despised by some countries, but in such a chaotic world, the Thai rulers really have to do so for the sake of national security and national sovereignty.
Thailand – a country struggling to survive in the cracks
No matter what the way a country lives, or what bad things it does to survive, we should look at it and understand it from an objective point of view.
Although Thailand is not as precipitated and accumulated as our Chinese history, it also has its own culture. We can roughly divide Thailand into four periods, namely the "Sukhothai period", the "Ayutthaya period", the "Thonburi period" and the "Bangkok period".
Bangkok has a history of more than 700 years and was called "Siam" in ancient times. It was first established as a dynasty and formed as a unified state in the late 1330s. The origin of the "Sukhothai period" is because the earliest Thais launched an uprising in the city of "Sukhothai", rebelled against the rule of the Cambodian dynasty, and established their own regime and country, so many people will call the "Sukhothai period" the founding period of Thailand. After Mongolia entered the Central Plains and established the Yuan Dynasty, in order to preserve its own strength, Thailand, like other Southeast Asian countries, actively paid tribute to the Yuan Dynasty, thus ensuring the security of Thailand's territory and the integrity of its sovereignty.
Thailand's "Ayutthaya era" began in the early 1450s, until the end of the 1860s, when the Burmese army wiped out the "Ayutthaya regime" that had gone through thirty-three monarchs. Soon after, a general named Zheng Xin, with his soldiers, recaptured Ayutthaya seven months after the fall of Ayutthaya, and subsequently established the famous "Thonburi Period".
After the fall of the "Thonburi regime" established by Zheng Xin, Rama I took the heavy responsibility of this land on his shoulders and established the "Chakuri Dynasty", which lasted until the tenth, that is, the "Rama X" in modern Thailand.
How to become an uncolonized country in recent history?
Cunning on the Question of England and France
In recent history, both Britain and France have valued Thailand's geographical location and strategic advantages, so they both want to turn Thailand into their own pockets. In order to be able to turn such an idea into reality, they have taken action, because the British have enslaved India at that time, so they have a certain advantage in fighting for Thailand, but the stubborn France is not far behind, still all the way to the vicinity of Thailand, the Thailand is a tiger's eye, in the face of being caught between the two major countries, the Thai high-level understands that if they do not make up their minds to come up with a good strategy, they may end up with the same fate as India, so a plan to "borrow power" is freshly baked.
They wanted to use the power of France and Britain to restrain and contain these two old rivals. In the nineteenth century, the Treaty of Siam was successfully signed, and although the signing of this treaty caused Thailand to lose some territory and money to a certain extent, it took advantage of the contradictions between Britain and France to preserve its sovereignty and did not let itself fall into the "colony" level. Although such a strategy of "abandoning the car and protecting the marshal" is detrimental to national prestige and face, it can indeed preserve important sovereignty. Even now, this is enough to show the cleverness and wisdom of the Thai authorities.
Thailand and Japan's "Plastic Brotherhood"
In the early days of the outbreak of World War II, the momentum of Japan's attack can be described as fierce, because the main forces of European powers such as Britain and France were pinned down by Germany in the European battlefield, so Japan's invincibility in Asia not only touched the forbidden areas of the great powers that were once afraid to touch, but also provoked the United States. As the Japanese army approached step by step, and with the risk of becoming a colony coming again, the Thai authorities came up with a countermeasure at this "moment of a thousand guns", which was "pro-Japan and safeguarding sovereignty."
In order to survive and ensure the sovereignty of their own country, the Top Thai people resolutely joined the ranks of the "Axis Powers" and became Japan's "good buddies". In the early 1940s, that is, in December 1941, the Thai authorities signed the "Japan-Thai Offensive and Defensive Alliance Treaty" with Japan, and it was at this time that Japan launched a "Pacific War" against the United States, the big tiger, which made Hitler thunderous.
A year after signing the Treaty of Alliance, Japan declared war on Britain and the United States with its little brother, Thailand. In fact, it is reasonable to say that Japan is really not thin for Thailand' little brother, and after achieving certain results, it has also allocated part of the territory belonging to Burma and Malaya to Thailand. However, after the surrender of Japan in August 1945, Thailand immediately showdowned, declaring to the world that "Thailand's declaration of war on Britain and the United States in 1942 was invalid", which seemed incomprehensible, but it was finally approved by the Allies.
Why did the allied parliament endorse Thailand's "absurd practices"?
In fact, all this is because of the United States. The United States spoke the most weightily among the late Allies, after all, in World War II, for the Axis powers, "the United States participated in the war, everyone was finished", so there would be reasons why Hitler was very angry and worried when the United States declared war on the Axis powers.
So Thailand took aim at the big brother and lured the US authorities with its country's advantages (excellent geographical advantages in the Asia-Pacific region) and compromised. It was with the support of the United States that Thailand transformed from a "defeated country" to a "victorious country" and its "riotous operations" surprised his former ally Japan.
brief summary
To sum up, the reason why Thailand has been spared from the enslavement of other countries is because it is good at "changing color", good at "dependence", and good at using, which makes it maintain a "sovereign independence" status in modern history.