Thitinan Pongsudhirak is professor at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science and a senior fellow at its Institute of Security and International Studies in Bangkok.
Thailand is in deeper water compared with its peers in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs announced on April 2. Several policy missteps from an ill-advised deportation of Uyghurs to China and the reception of Myanmar’s junta chief to the controversial arrest of an American academic have undermined Thailand-U.S. relations at a time when Bangkok needs to navigate and negotiate a tariff deal in Washington.
