Thailand to use China’s GPS system

Thailand is Beidou navigation network’s first overseas client – SCMP, April 4, 2013
…”If Thailand can embrace Beidou, other countries may follow and the Americans’ political, economic and military power in the region will be reduced.”
But the showcase project came with a big cost. According the agreement, China will not only build a national remote sensing system based on Beidou for Thailand, but a large satellite ground station with an industrial park for the development and production of Beidou receivers for the Southeast Asian market…