Международная научная конференция ЮВА в СПбГУ-65

Международная научная конференция, посвященная 65-й годовщине начала изучения языков ЮВА в нашей стране 340 P. Charoenpacharaporn left behind many legacies. As little scholarly attention has been paid to Indo-Thai relations in the early Cold War years, this means that this work will be the first one to cover it in depth. This paper will commence by looking at the Bandung Conference with a focus on India and Thailand and its aftermath will follow, arguing that the Bandung Conference marked a watershed in the Thai foreign policy that led to a rapprochement with the PRC in the framework of Panchsheel pioneered by Nehru. In May 1957, Phibun announced at the celebrations of 25 centuries of Buddhism in Bangkok that ‘it is now time for the government to show itself neutral and find a route toward global peace... [and] refuse to be mastered by either Eisenhower or Bulganin’ [Philips 2017: 132]. The Bandung Conference The Bandung Conference or the Afro-Asian Conference took place from 18 to 24 April 1955 in Java, Indonesia. The five Colombo Powers, namely Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Prime Minister Mohammed Ali of Pakistan, Prime Minister Nu of Burma, Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylon and President Sukarno of Indonesia, decided to organize and sponsor this conference. It was partly a response to the establishment of SEATO in September 1954, which to the Colombo Powers (especially India) was an encroachment of American intervention in the Asian regional affairs. It was partly to promote a South-to-South discussion over the issue of anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism among the newly independent (and about- to-be- independent) nations fromAsia andAfrica without the intervention from Western imperialist nations such as Britain, France, and the Netherlands, nor the Superpowers. The Bandung Conference would in this sense embody the solidary of the Afro-Asian countries that would promote non-alignment. Of the twenty-nine participants, fifteen were Asian including Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, the PRC, Japan, Laos, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, North and South Vietnam. Ten were from the Middle East, namely Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and