Tej bunnag biography
Tej bunnag biography
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Review: “Thai Diplomacy”
Anuson Chinvanno, ed. Thai Diplomacy: In Conversation with Tej Bunnag. Bangkok: International Studies Center, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2021.
207pp.
The editor, Dr Anuson Chinvanno, interviewed Dr Tej Bunnag (b.
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1943), one of Thailand’s most distinguished diplomats. He had been ambassador to China, France, the USA, and Geneva. After he retired as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), he moved to the Office of Principal Secretary of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
He is now Director-General of the Thai Red Cross, a landing pad for high-ranking officials after retirement. He still lectures to MFA entrants for whom Thai Diplomacy, with its many “lessons learnt,” is a handbook.
The careers of the ablest seem never to end.
The conversations in English, awkward at first because they usually spoke Thai to each other, begin with Anuson tossing up questions, some predictable, some moderately challenging