A Thaksin-style foreign policy means more cooperation, less pressure on the generals... "Burma?s ruling generals are probably smiling over what has happened in Thailand in recent months. The People Power Party, a reincarnation of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra?s Thai Rak Thai party, won the elections in December. The new Thai government?s diplomacy is unlikely to be different from Thaksin?s business-oriented diplomacy before he was ousted. The junta no doubt views new Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej as a proxy for Thaksin. That?s one reason to make them smile. But in terms of the two political systems, Burma and Thailand are no longer the same, following Thailand?s democratic election after more than one year of military-backed rule..."