Real-estate tycoon Srettha Thavisin will succeed a former army chief who moved the country closer to China.
After nearly a decade of army-backed rule, Thailand’s Parliament picked 61-year-old real-estate tycoonas the country’s next prime minister—the product of a compromise that falls short of removing the military from governance but does mark a democratic advance.
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