Abstract
Following the rising of China’s Science, Technology and Innovations (STI) strength, under the background of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China actively and engage in more cooperation with countries along the routes, including to use “Science Diplomacy” for promoting STI cooperation with the BRI countries which has created a new platform for STI cooperation in foreign affairs. Such as the case of China’s BRI and Thailand’s EEC. This paper contains by 4 parts:
(1) Definition of Science Diplomacy which will defined the main idea of Science Diplomacy in the perspective of western and Chinese;
(2) Science Diplomacy under BRI;
(3) BRI and Thailand’s EEC which will matching the STI cooperation for BRI & EEC; and
(4) Analysis & Conclusion.