China’s “help”

A report at The Nation has some interesting “responses” to the deportation of Uyghurs. It refers to a Chinese Embassy post on social media that says 45 were sent to China. Like a report at the Bangkok Post, it also gives the impression that the Chinese defense of Thailand on this repatriation is not helping its Thai friends in government.

Spinning and seemingly very angry, China states that the repatriation was “normal Sino-Thai cooperation.” We suppose that “normal” in the relationship is secrecy and obfuscation.

The Chinese embassy insisted that the “Chinese people” were “not asylum seekers but the illegal migrants who had entered Thailand,” and reaffirmed that “Thailand repatriated the Uyghurs on the Chinese government’s request.”

China’s outburst probably doesn’t help Thailand at all, but we doubt either regime cares much.