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15% loss of income will no hurt Xi. But it will hurt the average Chinese. Factories and production will slow. Lots of job losses. It will take many countries buying their products to meet the loss they will have from lack of sales in the US. Anyway, eventually one of those leaders. will fold. Either Xi will come to the negotiating table. Or Trump will cease trying to make the trading field even between countries. But I think Trump is playing a bigger field game and will not concede to China. Other countries are watching closely as well to see how Trump manages China.

It is clear you know little about Chinese economics

It could also backfire on China if the US finds other places to export what the US needs basically making the need to trade with China minimal if non-existent. There are lots of countries that will see this as an opportunity not only to produce and export more to the US but also it may bring more allies that teeter between US and China alliance. Take for example greenland decides to begin exporting some of the rare earth minerals that they have such a surplus with even more than china has.

Do you realize that most Chinese people earn less than 1000 USD per month to live on? That is the average salary for a full time job. Some make even less. Any price increases will surely hurt them quite a lot. Especially to the average person struggling to pay their bills and save a little money. When I worked there, I was making more than 3 times the salary than the other local teachers.

Given Boeings high standards for aircraft (haha) they can always pawn their planes to another country. This will not hurt the company any more than their planes crashing from substandard building and maintenance. This Article is completely biased. They leave out pertinent information related to the topic like... Those countries he suspended the tariffs agreed to come negotiate a viable trade deal with Trump and the US. Beijing just wants a fight and now they have it with Trump. Neither wants to fold. Maybe China's next step will be to stop all trade. They will of course suffer more repercussions than the US. Let the trade (wars) begin. We all knew it was coming in the next few years anyway.

You state fact when even the photo says and the vdo does not show the man striking a woman. Perhaps he was only belligerent to her or insulting her. To state fact he struck her still does not give the right for someone to arrive later to strike down the man in an apparent assualt especially when he is there to disperse problems, not create them more. The situation was supposed to be handled by police which I doubt were even called. They are usually near Soi 6 because of the many problems there already. The VDo clearly shows the man was attacked first. You make supposition something more happened prior to that. But that situation was not relevant since the man had walked away and was goaded on and basically surrounded by the other drinks.

Look.... if you want to legally work in Thailand as a teacher. Your degree needs to be from an accredited school that is listed online in that website. They can and will check to see if the school is listed but not in all applications. Only then will they issue you a temporary teaching permit good for your time at one school. Then you can get a work permit. Taking an online course from the Philippines is a mistake. Many fake schools offer this as well as paying to have a degree in your name in the Philippines. Those degrees are rigorously checked in Thailand because many filipinos came as teachers and it was learned they had fake degrees. Also, I do not think the Ministry of Education accept degrees from purely online classes. Then you will need to take a TEFL or TOEFL. If you are not from a native English speaking country you will need to take the TOEFL. As someone else asked. Why are you wanting to be a teacher in Thailand. If it is purely just to stay and have fun, do it on a tourist visa and make visa runs to Cambodia or Laos or Vietnam every 60 days. Being an English teacher in Thailand is a lot of work usually as well as dealing with the schools bureaucracy which is a job in itself. You also should have a love for teaching kids and be knowledgable in how to do it. The TEFL will only teach you the subject and some ideas to help teach. It does not prepare you for being a real teacher.

The same can be said about those who get the Flu. With or without vaccine.

I did not say he did not deserve what was coming to him. I said clearly what i saw in the VDO... He was assaulted with someone throwing the first punch then kicking him down..

Pattaya police have a stand only 30 meters from where this happened yet not one came around to see what the disturbance was. Perhaps the taxi mafia as well as the police stationed there need to be questioned? This is a great image to show the family tourists what Pattaya is really about.

Tomorrows news. foreigner gets beaten down by Thai security guards at bar on Soi 6. I do not see why the Thai man attacked? The other guy was just walking around in circles pointing fingers. The security came out and got into his face and then swung first punching the foreigner in the face then kicking him while on the ground. I thought Pattaya police had reigned in those guards and trained them in not attacking foreigners?

Let me rephrase. You forgot a word.. There is little more to life than profit for them. Songkran is their escape from dealing with money problems and work. It is their escape. You should not be detrimental simply because some foreigners do not understand Thais. I know that is a hard concept for you being Democratic. For Thais. This is their fun. For Pattaya, this is why foreigners go there as tourists. So yeah, they will do it as much as possibly allowed whether you as an expat like it or not. It will draw more tourists to their bars to drink and throw water and watch the women. Songkran generates a lot of income from tourists. Both locally and internationally. Expats like you seem to forget the fun you had when you did your first Songkran. Or perhaps you never participated in it due to old age or being grumpy. By the way, being wet does not stop a foreigner or Thai from going to a place to sit down to eat. Just as, restaurants will not be allowing water fights in their doorway. .

clearly you need to know more about Buddhism to understand that what the Thais consider as Buddhism is a watered down version of the true Buddhist. What they are taught in Thailand is their belief. However, their teachings were changed to suit what the people wanted and to benefit their desires. That is why you see monks walking around with ipads and iphones and macbooks. You see some getting caught having sex with women. doing drugs in the temple, raping boys, jetsetting the world as well as many more small things a true Buddhist knows is against their religion. The Thais even use Buddhism to make the bad they do seem ok. Like breaking laws and joining monkhood to circumvent punishment. This happens even in the highest of government. So why shouldn't the lower class follow their examples?

Perhaps the mother is naive. If you go out to get a tattoo. They do not show you gang tattoos in the shop This is something specifically requested or done by gangs. To say he wears gang tattoos but is not in a gang means she does not understand what is needed to get that specific one showing you are a gang member. Her comment about the fact that he had not done anything criminal in the US means nothing as well. He did do something illegal. He entered the US illegally and should be deported anyway. He is also too old for mama to know everything her son does every hour of everyday. The news likes to spout stories about these people showing them as innocent and undeserving of deportation. But this does not change the fact that those deported were in the country illegally. Plain and simple. The same would happen to them in any country when caught.

Agree.... The people seem to enjoy the holiday. They do not worry about a week of business faltering or closing. This is a time to travel, visit family, play water and have fun with parties. The government knows this also which is why they extended the holiday. More money spent means more poor people to control. But it is ok. Those people will be happy no work for a week and get to se their families.

This is quite a stupid poll. Clearly you began it demeaning Trump which shows your bias has no limit. When Trumps approval rating is 59%. Higher than a penguins i am most certain. Certainly higher than Biden was. Just because you do not like someone does not mean they are so bad to post such a stupid poll. Perhaps you should be looking at the overall picture rather than just showing your despise for the person making things happen. People are worried some only about what he is doing. But as the polls show there is still a majority that favor his doing what he promised prior to the election. With the illegal immigrants, it was reported that As of March 2025, FAIR estimates that approximately 18.6 million illegal aliens reside in the United States. This is 11 percent higher than our June 2023 illegal alien population estimate of 16.8 million.[1] The illegals entering have been reduced to less than 300 per day. The lowest ever since the year 2000. The illegals deported has increased to over 100,000 In case you haven't noticed. Prices have not increased as of yet due to tariffs. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy items and is watched closely by the Federal Reserve because it reflects more sustainable trends, increased 0.1%, down from a 0.2% rise a month earlier. That pushed down the annual increase from 3% to 2.8%, lowest since March 2021.3 days ago

Try reading the Article before posting it... ONly about 600,000 registered to attend but organizers claim millions attended. I seem to recall something similar in the past where the estimation was grossly over exaggerated. Nearly 600,000 people had signed up to attend the events, some of which took place in major cities like London and Paris, according to Indivisible, one of the organizations leading the movement in collaboration with a nationwide coalition that includes civil rights organizations, veterans, women’s rights groups, labor unions and LGBTQ+ advocates. CNN has not been able to independently verify how many people attended Saturday’s demonstrations, but “Hands Off!” organizers say that “millions” of people turned up from coast to coast. Organizers say they have three demands: “an end to the billionaire takeover and rampant corruption of the Trump administration; an end to slashing federal funds for Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs working people rely on; and an end to the attacks on immigrants, trans people, and other communities.” Either way...... There are 346 million citizens in the US. So a million throughout 1400 events scheduled would be a pathetic attempt. Also, this event was sponsored by Dem lefties. Which means the events probably drew more people to see their shows than to protest and then walked out after the shows. Just like with Harris. One other point. Who cares if many of the events were not even done in the US. Let other countries protest all they want. You can not even bother to count those into any relevance except that they went to the show. A side note. This article was written by CNN. Leftist to the max. The headlines say in the US but the article says in other countries also. So it is very misleading and biased. I do not believe the article is accurate and that the CNN used this to promote hate against Trump instead.

Where are your links? Otherwise you are just spitting out hypothetical jargon. Show the prices have risen for shoes in Vietnam. You can not even say for sure that tariffs will be enforced or negotiated to bring a better result to the US. Yet, quick to make claims without any factual support.

He is a Trump hater. So everything that Trump does is bad in his eyes. He can not help but to spin negativity in threads against things Trump is doing. I would bet he opened the thread simply to cause turmoil in replies. I do not one single link he supplied to verify his claims about Vietnamese shoes costing more in the USA now. Nor anything to substantiate his other claims. This is a purely hypothetical thread with a negative twist to attack a Trump policy.

I am curious... if the dollar got weaker then why is the Thai baht at 34.5 currently? Yesterday it was at 34.4 which seems to show the Dollar stable and/or stronger.

If the Us does sell it to Thailand. They better make sure it does not have anything inside that China can use as leverage against the US. Surely, China will have their hands in any equipment the US sells to Thailand

Great to see they finally posted another OP for the foreigner bashers to grovel and complain over. It was getting boring reading all the Thai bashing in other OPs. Since no one really knows what started it all or why the video clip begins with the foreigner hitting the Thai first. It is safe to say that there was something more that happened before that is not being shown. Therefore, the incident could have begin outside of the video shown and the only thing shared was the portion that makes the foreigner look bad. I am the devils advocate for you all. But why i need to be is unclear since it has been proven in other incidences about portions of videos being left out to make the news a good attack or to make the Thai justified for actions such as this. Either way, being so near the police? Why are there not any arrests? Where are the police?

AS was most likely the case. But if the FDA or health services says it is good to have some wine every day to help your blood circulation. Do you start drinking 5 bottles a day? There is no reason to blame RFK Jr for this except to make him look bad simply because some people disagree with his thinking.

Oh come on man... Noone told them to take excessive amounts of Vitamin A. You can overdose on any number of vitamins and supplements. It is clear that the children who have toxicity took too much. To blame it on a recommendation that it aids in treating measles is ridiculous. Lots of Anti RFK Jr people want to blame him if something happens. But in reality it is the parents fault for not knowing the amounts a child should be given. That is a non-prescribed vitamin and can be found in any pharmacy or store. If the dosages were prescribed, then it would be the physicians fault for giving the child too much causing other problems. But to blame it on anyone else other than parents or doctors would just be done to show their hate for this person.

Wow... another reactive hate Trump post by you. Trump has stated many times that these tariffs are to balance the trade between nations. Because currently, the US loses on every trade deal. Your comment is more insane than the policy. I hope since Thailand recognizes the trade imbalance and wishes to stabilize it so both countries have equal trade, that other countries follow suit rather than get pissy and try to made trade wars.