Thailand

>>2487549

Skilful manoeuvring by its then-monarch, Rama V.

Rama III realized isolationism was stupid.

Later rulers told the anglos/frogs that if they bother them too much they will join the frogs/anglos.

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this guy
basically a southeast asian Meiji emperor

Mostly infighting between Europeans

>>2487549
It's being colonized now

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>>2487549
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Siamese_War
was in 1893
Thailand paid with clay its "liberty"

>>2487719
>78 kids
What a legend, talk about putting in the shift

>WE WUZ NEVA COLONIZED N SHIET U FARANG
>says the inhabitants of the world's sex capital

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Buffer zone between France and Great Britain, basically.

>>2487868
ChulalongDong

>>2487897
It fascinates me that they have been sending embassy to France since 1686, how does that happen?