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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing, well sort of in a general sense, it is kind of a discussion on the US-Thai Treaty of Amity but it has a little bit of a different thrust. I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from Thai PBS World, that is thaipbsworld.com, the article is titled: The US Congress sets up US-Thai Alliance Caucus. Quoting directly: "Key congressional members have set up the US-Thai Alliance Caucus which will serve as a bipartisan hub," (that is interesting, bipartisan, I will get to that in a moment) quoting further: "serve as a bipartisan hub to promote relations between two countries, according to an informed source." Quoting further: "The source said that the US representatives Michelle Steel and Scott Peters recently wrote to the US Congress's Chairman of the House Administration Committee, Bryan Steil, stating their desire to register the US-Thai Alliance Caucus at the US Congress. Both Steel, Republican, and Peters, Democrat," (again going back, this is not a Republican or a Democrat thing, this is bipartisan which is great because I am a big fan of the US-Thai Alliance and I don't want to bunch of Party politics sort of muddying all that up). Quoting again: "Both Steele, Republican and Peters, Democrat representing California will co-chair the new Caucus." Quoting further: "Thailand and the US are celebrating 190 years of diplomatic ties this year. Siam, the former name of Thailand, was the first Asian country to establish ties with the US. Their relations were formalized in 1833 with a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and reaffirmed their relationship with the 1954 Manila Pact of the former Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. In 2003, the United States designated Thailand as a major non-NATO ally." 

So again, the relationship it's kind of "still waters run deep", the relationship between Thailand and the USA goes back a long ways and it is manifest in many, many different ways most notably the US and the Thais are just friends. It's really kind of a cool relationship when you really kind of live in it and know sort of what it's all about and read about the history; they are just friends. At the end of the day, they are just countries that are very good friends. Further to that, also again I believe it is mentioned in there, if I didn't quote it, it might be in another excerpt, but yeah the US's oldest ally in Asia is Thailand going all the way back to 1833. So again, for the United States that is quite a long time. For Thailand it is kind of recent overall, in terms of their overall history but it is a pretty big deal nonetheless.

Again as we have noted in other videos, this is also manifest in the US-Thai Treaty of Amity itself which continues to this day and provides a great many benefits especially to American businesses or business people, individuals, looking to do business in Thailand because pursuant to the terms of the US-Thai Treaty of Amity, it is possible to maintain 100% ownership of a company here in Thailand, notwithstanding the provisions of the Foreign Business Act and I have made many videos on this channel regarding that topic that you can go and have a look at. But long story short, I think this is great news. This is really good. I am glad to see that Congress sees the importance of Thailand in the bigger scheme of things and understands that a Bipartisan Caucus regarding this Thai-American Alliance is something beneficial for all parties and I am going to be very happy to continue to report on this situation as it evolves.