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My wife is from Hong Kong and I lived there for a few years so we have quite a few friends and family there. A lot of those like to visit Thailand but usu8ally for a short trip of about 2-5 days so not surprising they spend less than you did in 2 months.

Better if he woke up and realised that the roblem is not cheap goods coming in an reducing the cost of living. The massive problem is that Thai manufacturers and workforce are totally unable to compete with the productivity and quality levels of those in other countries. The answer is to follow Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China by improving education, having a strong work ethic, providing massive support to companies which show success in comperting internationally and grow exports, allowing bloated dinosaurs or innefficient protected monopolies to die etc.

They a reflection of the fact that most resources and funding go to a tiny prcentage of schools where the rich and influential send their kidsto get a world class education while the rest of the scools offer an education even worse than the PISA scores suggest if you take out these few.

Mining and selling these minerals could make Thailand quite a bit of money and generate plenty of bug brown envelopes for the mining rights. Allowing this to "propel Thailand into a leading role in the EV industry within the ASEAN region, potentially transforming its economy and positioning it as a hub of technological innovation and manufacturing prowess" would require a massive improvement in the education system to produce the creaative, highly skilled workers and entreprenuers required. I wonder which route Thailand will go ?