Asia | Turning to sand
Is Thailand heading for another coup?
The generals would be mad to try
|Bangkok|5 min read
Gridlock in Thai politics tends to end one way. Thailand is the only middle-income country in which the armed forces regularly seize power. There have been a dozen coups since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932, two of them in the past 20 years.
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