Thaksin is the father of Thailand’s current prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, and a former Thai PM. Should this become a Thai government policy, it would perhaps signal a reversal of decades of unofficial policy. Thais had a passive role in the growth of drug trade in golden triangle which began with CIA growing opium to finance Chinese republican army occupying eastern Burma. Wa have thrived on opium and meth trade since splitting from the Chinese-founded second Communist Party of Burma. They have the largest private army in the world armed by the Chinese, and are too powerful for the Burmese military to contend with. With the whole country in rebellion, and the Burmese economy in shambles post coup, it is unlikely the Junta desires to add the most powerful ethnic army to its long list of foes.