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03 Dec 2008 09:25 am

Thai Me Up, Thai Me Down

History keeps offering up surprises, sometimes unpleasant ones:

Remember all those theories about how the emergence of an urban middle-classes is a force for democratisation, because the bourgeoise will demand political rights? Well, in Thailand the precise opposite is happening. The urban middle-classes are rising up and demanding that democracy be rescinded.

Next up: China?

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