November I think it can be called the month of Asia, Cambodia held the ASEAN summit, Indonesia held the G20 summit, Thailand held the APEC summit, Qatar held the World Cup every four years, and leaders of various countries also shuttled back and forth between various places this month to negotiate and exchange.
Indeed, in the past three years, the world has been affected by plague and war, and the economy has faced many uncertainties, which requires leaders of all countries to sit down in a down-to-earth manner, do a good job in bilateral and multilateral relations, and provide suggestions for the future world economy. In particular, many past grievances should be resolved, such as the Saudi crown prince's visit to Thailand for the APEC meeting, the first visit by a Saudi leader in more than 30 years
In fact, do you know that the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Thailand was still quite good after going back a few decades, but the loss of a rare blue diamond brought the relationship between the two countries to the brink of collapse or even broke off diplomatic relations for a period of time.
Saudi Arabia was originally a poor and white desert, but who would have thought that oil was buried under the desert, and the cost of Saudi Arabia to extract oil was extremely low, so Saudi Arabia has become a local tyrant since this century. Especially after the oil crisis in the 70s of last century, Saudi Arabia and the United States joined hands to lay the foundation of the petrodollar, and Saudi Arabia's development was more rapid.
Not only Saudi Arabia, this Qatar World Cup we can see very clearly, Qatar such a small place, that is, the size of a prefecture-level city in the mainland, three or four million people, even fewer with household registration, but people can come up with more than 200 billion US dollars to host this World Cup, this money really makes a number of developed countries speechless.
People's money comes too easily, so Saudi Arabia or Qatar, the common people of these countries are relatively good welfare, after all, oil is state-owned oil is everyone's, princes and nobles take the big head, you also have to let the people drink some soup is not, so relatively speaking, a lot of hard work Saudi people do not do, who does? They can bring in a large number of foreign workers, after all, there are many poor countries, weak countries and small countries throughout Southeast Asia, which do not have such abundant natural resources as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and they can only make money by exporting manpower.
For example, the Philippines is famous for sending Filipino maids to the world, and many Philippine university graduates hope to be able to go to the mainland, Hong Kong, mainland Taiwan, and other developed areas to work as maids, earn money and repatriate to China. Although the Thai royal family is equal to the Saudi royal family in wealth, the Thai people are really much poorer than the Saudis, so in the seventies and eighties of the last century, there were about hundreds of thousands of Thais working as foreign workers in Saudi Arabia.
Of course, these hundreds of thousands of Thais have worked hard to save a large amount of foreign exchange remittances back to Thailand every year to support Thailand's economic construction, which was originally a win-win situation, Thais earned money and workers helped Saudi construction, Saudi Arabia and Thailand have no ideological territorial disputes, the relationship between the two countries should become more and more harmonious.
However, an ordinary and unusual criminal case has sharply deteriorated the relationship between the two countries, the Saudi royal family has thousands of princes, many of whose wealth is rich and rival, such as Prince Faisal, the eldest son of Saudi King Fahd, who not only has a magnificent palace, but also the jewelry of his own family is priceless.
One day in 1989, Prince Faisar and his wife took their children with a large number of entourages to prepare for a foreign vacation, the Saudi prince went on vacation for a day or two, people said that they would go for three months, and a few servants were left in the huge palace to watch over the house, which gave the villain an opportunity, there was a worker from Thailand called Jankley, usually he knew that the prince was very rich, and the jewelry owned by the royal family was really valuable, So when he saw the prince and his wife leaving the palace with their children and a large number of entourage, he felt bad.
As soon as the prince left, he entered the prince's bedroom, pried open the bedroom safe with a screwdriver and stole a large number of jewels, including a blue diamond of more than 50 carats, most of which are colorless or white in nature, and diamonds with large color carats and high clarity are really extremely rare, so the value is very high.
According to the judgment of relevant experts, not to mention other jewelry, this blue diamond was probably worth tens of millions of dollars at the time, but in 1989, Jiangklei hid a large amount of jewelry in a vacuum bag and transported it out of the palace, and then he unknowingly transferred the stolen goods to a container, which also contained a lot of his own luggage and sent it back to Thailand.
The prince's family traveled for three months, so for such a long time no one realized that the royal jewels had been stolen, and Jankle himself resigned and returned to Thailand, where he had a large gambling debt, which was why he had to take risks. But to be honest, as a cleaner, he is too ignorant, with the wealth of the Saudi royal family, if you are just a petty thief and take jewelry that is not too valuable but enough to make you worry about food and clothing in the next life, maybe this matter will not be too big.
The key is that you stole the 50-carat rare blue diamond as soon as you took it, and the richest Saudi royal family cannot be indifferent, and it is clear that the higher the value of the stolen property, the greater the incentive to trace, so the prince returned home from vacation for a few months and saw that my valuable blue diamond was lost, and his own workers resigned and returned to Thailand, everything is so obvious, it should be him, so the Saudi side immediately negotiated with Thailand to help hunt down the thieves.
After all, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Thailand was still good at that time, so the Thais really took this matter, sent senior police to study, investigate and arrest, and smoothly caught Jankle, and recovered most of the jewelry that had been stolen, and even extradited Janklei from Thailand to Saudi Arabia.
Logically speaking, this is a happy ending, Thailand helped Saudi Arabia to recover the thieves and get the jewelry back, the relationship between the two countries should be closer, but what makes the Saudi royal family very unhappy is that on the one hand, the most valuable blue diamond has not been recovered, on the other hand, a large number of jewelry returned to the Saudi royal family is a fake.
In other words, the Thai police just helped Saudi Arabia catch the thief, and the real lost jewelry was not returned to Saudi Arabia, seeing this outcome, the Saudi side was of course very unhappy, they severely accused the Thai side of not handling the case seriously, and asked Thailand to help Saudi Arabia recover this rare blue diamond.
At first, the Saudi side may just think that the Thai police are ineffective and caught the prisoners but the stolen goods can not be recovered, but not long after, someone found that some of the stolen jewelry was brought around the neck of the wife of the Thai police high-ranking wife, which made the Saudi side angry, they felt that the Thai police were too corrupt, they recovered the stolen goods and replaced them with some fakes, and left the real jewelry in their hands?
Especially in the hands of this rare blue diamond, many people even suspect whether it may be given to the Thai royal family by the Thai police high-level, but after all, this is on people's territory, Saudi Arabia does not have the right to investigate, so Saudi Arabia can only send three diplomats and a businessman to Thailand to assist in investigating the whereabouts of jewelry, no matter how good the relationship between the two countries, you Saudi police have no law enforcement power, Saudi Arabia can not send military police to Thailand to investigate.
However, even so, the Saudi investigation has made no progress, why? Because this theft has slowly turned into murder, on February 1, 1990, three diplomats from the Saudi Embassy in Thailand were shot dead in Bangkok, and on February 14, 1990, Saudi businessmen also disappeared during an investigation in Bangkok, which means that the people sent by Saudi Arabia to Thailand not only did not investigate anything, but lost their own lives.
Later, it was said that Saudi Arabia had a very good relationship with the United States, so Saudi Arabia even commissioned the CIA to Thailand to investigate, but after many years of investigation, there was still no progress, so some people said that the Thai side could do this case so desperately, and could cut off this clue so ruthlessly, then it is estimated that it must be the direct command of the police top and even the Thai royal family, so even the CIA can not be carried out in Thailand, so Saudi Arabia can only suffer a dumb loss in this muffled voice.
So what to do, the Saudi royal family is very indignant, you Thais come to work with us to earn our money and steal our rare jewelry, and even murder our diplomats and businessmen, then simply I don't want your workers to come back to work, so after the theft of the blue diamond, the Saudi side stopped issuing work visas to Thais, and withdrew a large number of investments in Thailand, and even in September 1990, the diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Thailand were downgraded from the ambassador level to the chargé d'affaires level, which was almost severed.
Under the strong protest of Saudi Arabia, the Thai side further investigated, and even found a number of people who handled this batch of jewelry, but over time, these people either disappeared or were assassinated, or they themselves could not tell the flow of the stolen goods, so slowly the blue diamond really disappeared, not only the Saudis, but also the Thais have never seen it again, and at the same time, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Thailand can never return to the past.
Once hundreds of thousands of Thais who went to Saudi Arabia to work can only return to their own country, to this day only about 18,000 Thais are still working in Saudi Arabia, and later someone concluded that in the past 30 years, hundreds of thousands of Thais have lost the opportunity to work in Saudi Arabia because of blue diamonds, and Thailand has reduced its income by hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, which is really worth the loss.
Today, more than 30 years later, after all, everything is so far away, so the bilateral relationship between Saudi Arabia and Thailand has been restored, the Thai prime minister visited Saudi Arabia this year, and the Saudi crown prince also visited Thailand this month, but the whereabouts of the rare blue diamond are still unknown.