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This is a severe overreaction! There are studies that in dense concentrations some of the chemicals in sunscreen can harm corals. But they did not do the work to determine the real world impact. https://phys.org/news/2019-02-insufficient-evidence-sunscreen-coral-reefs.html With any chemical, it’s the dosage that matters! It also ignores the much larger impact of other factors! I have come up from many dives with the bad taste of diesel fuel in my mouth. The oil from the dive boats is a very clear problem that is order of magnitudes greater! This is like shops banning plastic straws, while still selling large quantities of plastic water bottles! It makes people feel better that they are doing something, but it’s a trivial thing. It would be better to first eliminate the bigger problems that will have an impact! Other logical problems with the sunscreen arguments. Lotion is usually an “oily” product that contains the chemicals. Thus it floats! Unless you are diving *under* coral, it’s not going to touch the coral. For “reef safe” sunscreen, there have not been studies to determine if all of the chemicals in it, are actually harmless. At best they can only claim that they don’t contain the known chemicals.

Less than 19% of Thailand exports go to the US, #1 but China is a close second. A sizable portion of those exports the US importers will just pay the tariffs, others such as commodities (rice) can just be sold to other countries (notably those not buying American). Exports are not the entire Thai GDP! So there will be some pain, but not enough to cause a relatively stable economy to suffer!

Highly unlikely that China will give Thais visa free entry, only 10 countries have it now.

While I don’t know the details of Thai work permit requirements, I have worked for multinational corporations in remote countries. By far the easiest way is to become an employee of the local subsidiary. Most multinationals will have a subsidiary to at least support their local sales team. There will be internal processes to move budget to support someone in a division that may not currently exist in the subsidiary, but that is usually not too complicated. Becoming a local employee of a subsidiary usually makes the issues around a WP easier, as the subsidiary likely has a number of local employees and a sizable investment in the country. Although one negative factor may be that you will be put on the local pay scale and local benefits, which may be less than the home package.