How Thailand Escaped Colonialism

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Thailand is famously one of the few countries to have never been colonized by a European power, despite being right in the middle of a bunch of other European colonial possessions, so how did they manage to escape being colonized?

MUSIC:
"The Wild West" by Ross Bugden

SOURCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailan...
"Bangkok Pocket Guide" by Insight Guides

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