John Drake

Because, maybe, these are Chinese subs with a Thai flag. An outright naval base given over to the Chinese might cause problems--right now. But not a Chinese sub "pen" with Thai decals stuck all over it.

The fairy tale is the belief that those subs will be independently manned and crewed by Thais only. The crews are already getting their training in, I think, Wuhan, of all places. And when the subs hit the seas, you can bet that Chinese "advisers, technicians, maintenance specialists, and weapons specialists" will be right on board. No need to track them. They will not be able to move without Chinese naval "help."

Remember the saying, "Eat stuff. Ten billion flies can't be wrong."

There is something to this. Maybe more. Because it's not just submarines but all the other military hardware being bought from China. Thailand is all but part of a Chinese defense pact. If real hostilities break out, Thailand isn't going to be able to sit on the fence. They're putting a target on their back. How is the other side to differentiate between Chinese submarines and Chinese submarines supposedly manned by Thais? They can't. They won't. Those subs will be vaporized.

Very thin research record. Most of it consists of a few articles with multiple authors.

Seems the people on this forum who ordered several months ago paid three or four times that price for Moderna. You wuz robbed.

Almost three weeks since Don thanked Tammy. Anybody seen the 1 million Pfizer shots? Have they already been distributed? Or still waiting for clearance?

Same doctors you see in the private hospitals you also see in the public ones.

Thailand has quite an effective medical system, I think. It absolutely does deserve to rank above the US, as the OP indicates. Have a sudden illness in the US? Try calling your physician, if you're lucky enough to get one that will see you, and they will tell you to make an appointment (in two or three weeks at the earliest) or go to the emergency room at the nearest hospital and expect to pay $$$$$. In Thailand, when I need to see my inner ear specialist, for example, I just go over to the hospital twenty minutes away, wait in line for about five to 20 minutes, and then I'm in. Have a sudden eye problem? Same as the inner ear specialist. Same hospital. Go and be waited on within minutes and pay 750 baht for two retina scans. Try that in the US and see how many weeks and how much money you pay. I've had things like kidney stones treated here within 16 hours--different hospital. Medically, my care in Thailand is much superior to the US.

I think it's all the warts.

I don't care that you don't care.

Absolutely. In fact, people should have had the opportunity to improve their exercise routine during these times. Begin the day running up 100 flights of stairs, two stairs at a time. Walk to grocery stores. Whenever there is an option, take the more difficult physical path. Plenty more ways to improve health without expensive gyms or olympic pools

Barely a B-list actor these days. But, who knows, if you're the sort who liked Dumb and Dumber, you might like this as well. Same people involved.

When I worked at a certain prominent Thai university, my Thai Chinese students (and that was about 99 percent of the class--a few Thai Japanese were there as well) expressed open contempt for "pure Thais." They claimed that were it not for them, Thailand would look like Laos. Must say that I found much better attitudes from my Chinese Chinese students than my Thai Chinese ones. Usually, when 10 to 15 percent of one ethnic group owns 80 percent or more of a country's wealth, that is a problem. Interesting to see how the Malays dealt with a similar issue in their country.

What an image.

That is a depressing thought.

First, you sound like someone who needs to toddle on along to the next topic, if this one bothers you so much. Second, to answer your question, I'll bet not one person posting or reading this topic woke up this morning with even a thought of CP or their patriarch in their head. And we all would have gone right through the day completely oblivious of the question had not CP itself started to threaten law suits and magnify the topic to headline news.

Because things were so much safer under Mao? Right?

I would if it was 1939.

Rather than just Thailand, the article and the numbers therein apply to "Southeast Asia."

Most families that could do so were running away from China in 1949. For some reason this fellow and his family went to China and he graduated from a Chinese high school. All that would hint at CCP connections.

Now, this is interesting. According to Wiki: "Dhanin attended primary school at Sarasit Pittayalai School in Ban Pong District, Ratchaburi, until graduating in 1949 and went to graduate from high school in 1951 from Shantou No.1 High School, China." So it seems he moved to China after Mao took over in 1949. Fascinating career move. I'm not sure what it says about his political leanings today.

It never would have occurred to me to think about this or even give it the slightest consideration. That is, until someone apparently started threatening lawsuits and spreading it into the English language media. Probably would have gone away in a day or so until someone started getting all thin-skinned about it.

So does this mean that during these rains of late they've sat on their hands and done nothing? Didn't adjust water outflows at all?

TAT says you lie!