JimHuaHin

I believe if people are threatened and they fear that they will have to endure unacceptable hardship, they will retaliate. Protests and/or boycotts of American products/businesses is certainly possible, including against the 180-odd US overseas military bases. China, amongst other countries, would happily welcome the demise of the US dollar as the global currency.

First question answer - no, I do not celebrate Chinese new year - I celebrate Tet, Vietnamese Lunar New Year. Second question answer - no.

Probably Pete, as well as Don, do not appreciate that putting the USA first, means putting US interests first, which means taking into account the desires of the USA's (now dwindling) number of friends and allies. I can just imagine a number of the USA's friends and allies soon moving to a position of no US bases in our country and a ban on US imports.

The sun set on the British empire decades ago, and it is never going to return.

Happens every Chinese new year. Most of the rest of the world refers to Lunar New Year, but as Thailand is a Chinese colony ....

Trump thinks that he can now do anything he wants anywhere to anyone. One day in the near future, when the world turns against the USA, when Canada and Mexico ban US "tourists" and produce, and USA producers cannot sell their produce outside the USA and foreign produce cannot enter the USA and the USA has no allies, then maybe, just maybe, the American people, and Trump's billionaire Silicon Valley friends, may wake up and remove Trump.

I nearly wiped out a motorcycle yesterday afternoon. I was driving along a busy main road doing about 40 km an hour, motorcycle came out of a side road at speed, the driver did not even turn his head an inch to look for any traffic; if I did not swerve a little to avoid him he would have impacted the side of my car. Total idiot.

Taksin will do anything (get in bed with the "enemy"), promise anything ("free" money for the masses), all to show he loves the Thai people and wants their vote, while in reality it is all about staying in power and increasing his family's wealth at the expense of Thailand and the Thai people. There is little difference between Taksin and Putin, Trump and Emperor Xi.

If you pay any tax in Thailand, including VAT, then some of the hand out is your money!!!

A hand-down from my mother in 1975 - a cream coloured VW Beetle 1200 (do not know the year it was made). She purchased a new Datsun 180B, which I took possession of when she died in 1986.

I express my ignorance, apologies. Have you consulted the Owner's Manual? If it has been lost, I am sure a Google search will direct you to an online copy. Good luck.

Great heading - not sure which alternative universe the poster is in, but certainly not the one I am currently in.

Totally useless. Thai politicians are mere puppets of Thai big business, as in the USA and other countries. They care nothing about the Thai people or Thailand; all they care about is getting richer, moving assets overseas, getting OS citizenship/passports in preparation to leave when the sh*t hits the fan (as Cambodia's Hun Sen and family and friends have done). Thailand is doomed!!! Simple as that. Same with the sinking Bangkok problem - known about from at least the 1970s. Many promises made, but nothing effective achieved. The Chao Phraya flood plain is sinking - the Trumpish solution - build baby build!! The only hope is the enlightened youth of Thailand, but they have been silenced or imprisoned by the power-wealth elite.

Which Thai Revenue Office, please?

Nazism never left!

In the words of Edmund Burke "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it". The USA of the past decade seems much like the 1920s-1930s Germany. The ignorant selfish Germans who elected Hitler in March 1933 .....

I think the Center has been around for about 5-10 years; I remember seeing the building when driving around Bangkok last decade.

Taksin has to blame someone other than his clan.

Those in power who love the PRC and the CCP pushed it; and now they realise that it is killing Thailand.

All Trump supporters will be pardoned, while the detractors will be sent to the gulag.

Reminds me of Hitler's second victory speech.

Yes, neo-Nazi USA. But just wait until Trump begins his Stalinist-style purges.

Short answer - yes.

What did the great Bod Dylan say about propaganda? Maybe the PM is planning to allocate an armed police person or soldier to protect every single Chinese tourist.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Then there is Thai data.