BANGKOK: French anti-tank missiles, Swedish jets and American assault rifles—Western governments have criticized Thailand’s junta for toppling democracy but at a Bangkok arms fair it was business as usual.

The kingdom’s well-oiled military has been handsomely rewarded in the last decade during which it has twice seized power, ousting elected governments in 2006 and 2014 coups.

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