<p>The article was originally written under the request of Fah Diew Kan Magazine in which the Thai-translated version will appear on its latest edition. Pravit Rojanaphruk is currently a Katherine Fanning Fellow for Journalism and Democracy at Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio.</p>

<p>As China prepares to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the&nbsp;founding of the People's Republic on October 1, many people the world&nbsp;over have already become accustomed to thinking of China as the new&nbsp;global superpower.</p>

<p>Go ahead and curse Thaksin Shinawatra as much as you like!&nbsp; Blame Thaksin for corruption, for using and manipulating the red-shirt mob to risk their lives confronting tanks, armed soldiers, and arrest, to fulfil his insatiable thirst for power and money in the name of &quot;real democracy&quot;. Thaksin deserves it.&nbsp;</p>