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Thailand successfully convinced the British and French to leave his territory alone as a buffer state between their empires. During this era of diplomacy, the Thai kings also modernized the country, making the possibility of a violent confrontation between Western powers and Thailand less desirable for the numerically inferior Westerners.

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