Since 2005 Thailand has been stuck in a damaging election-protest-coup-re-election cycle, but the coronation of a new monarch could lead to a new kind of politics away from the red vs yellow confrontation of the past
The self-imposed exile of the former prime minister opens a window of opportunity for the powers-that-be on all sides in Thai politics to break the vicious cycle of coups, constitutions, elections, coups.
Thitinan Pongsudhirak says China, whose rise threatens regional stability and sparked the military build-up, should be given some room to recognise the dangers of its own aggression