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Unlike IOW, where Britain (from Burma and Malaya) and France (from Vietnam and Cambodia) placed pressure on Siam from multiple angles and, in their imperialistic demands, managed not only to strip Siam's marginal territories but hinder its modernization, the more modest pressure of Britain allowed Siam to modernize on its own terms. Siam has roughly the same standing to the industrialized countries of the FANTL that Turkey does to industrialized countries in IOW 2001: it's a middle-income country with serious problems in minority policy and democratic governance.

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