By Bertil Lintner, http://www.asiapacificms.com
When Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen appointed Thaksin Shinawatra as “economic adviser” to the Phnom Penh government, Thailand reacted strongly, canceling a 2001 memorandum of understanding on overlapping maritime boundaries. Diplomats from both countries have been recalled, and a Thai engineer working in Cambodia has been arrested and charged with spying. This is hardly just a “spat”—which is how the Thai media seems to treat the current standoff. But it also is not the most serious crisis in the history of Thai-Cambodian relations.
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