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Originally Posted by Davy-040
I think the Thais never really had interest in oversea colonies like the Coastal Western Europeans did, they would rather go with the Russian/Chinese/German approach and build a vast empire.
That Thai/Indochinese empire with German support in the early 1900's...
I could see them take ("unite") Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Hainan, Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and parts of Northern India "in the name of Buddhism".
They would have some sort of agreement with the Japanese and let them do their own business in the Pacific, taking everything East of Guangxi.
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I sort of agree about an overseas empire, but what if France and Britain had still already taken some of those places as colonies?
Singapore was a fishing village of a few hundred people before Stamford Raffles showed up, and the government hated having the colony so much at the start that they made him personally pay for the costs of taking it on as a possession. So the Gibraltar of the East probably still ends up in the British fold. India similarly would probably still end up a British possession as it too was in some ways "accidentally" added to the Empire.
Basically, a somewhat expansionist Siam exists in 1914 surrounded by British and French colonies that are mostly smaller than they were in real life.