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The Thai government has spend months preparing for this high-profile regional political event – the Asean Summit – but with more than 100,000 people protesting against the Thai government, the summit has been cancelled and foreign dignitaries sent home.
The so-called Red Shirt demonstrators stopped the Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone from entering the site of a meeting between the foreign ministers of Japan, China and South Korea. In this case, an improvised trilateral meeting went ahead by telephone. But other meetings have been cancelled. For the Thai government it is …
