Nabby

Virtually any and all news relating to China/Chinese is BAD NEWS.

But I've heard people from northern Thailand refer to their brethren in the south as "black-hearted southerners."

I've heard that if the Indo spouse doesn't provide sex for 6 months divorce is automatic in Indonesia. On the 5th month many quickly go spread eagle and say get it over with.

Any and all news related to China/Chinese is BAD news.

His Tibet policy was brutal. May he rot in Hell.

They need to return to Moscow en masse and string up Putin by a light pole, and let him hang there until the crows and maggots have had their way with his putrid corpse.

They've clamped down hard on scientists doing research in the country, too. Just a sprawling, deforested, ungovernable country.

Any news involving Chinese or Russian is bad news. Always.

All and any news about China/Chinese is BAD news.

Hope he gave it to Winnie, or at least someone gave it to him. But if so, we'll never know.

Basically, any news related to China/Chinese is BAD NEWS.

Great news. Thanks!

Thank you!

OK, I'll admit I'm too lazy to check some official site so I want to ask it here: is there no longer a 30-day on arrival visa for US passport holders? I don't live in the States, in Asia, and the airfares I saw were about 35% higher than usual. If I have to upload documents for an e-Visa I will go to Cambodia instead.

Keep dreaming, Senior government officials. It will be years before Xi lets the Chinese out again, perhaps decades.

He might have broken the rules, but this is xenophobic bs.

Thailand is not "upmarket" (whatever that means). Never has been, never can be. And that's all there is to it.

Xi isn't letting the Chinese tourists out anytime soon, and as soon as there is even the smallest flare-up of some Covid variant somewhere (and it's never going away, so this will always happen), he will slam the doors shut again, showing that he's keeping the virus "out" and also forcing Chinese to spend their money in country, and, I think, he just likes locking people up.

Best to keep this info a secret.

It's so great the the Chinese aren't allowed out of their wretched country.

China has nothing to offer any country and any Chinese projects taking place in any developing country are a result of bribing the people at the top. Thankfully, Xi has been collecting and tearing up Chinese citizens' passports and stopped issuing new ones. Hopefully we'll never see the wretched Chinese hordes again.

Ko Samui sucks. Would Europeans really fly across the world to go there?

Did Xi change his mind about allowing his countrymen to travel overseas? If not, what are the Thai authorities hoping for? The Chinese diaspora in Canada and the US?

Putin can use his stolen billions and charter a flight for stranded Russians if he gave a damn.

Shanghai and Shenzen have recently been locked down due to Covid outbreaks. Until the CCP changes it's zero-Covid strategy, there is simply no chance whatsoever they will allow their citizens to venture abroad. The Chinese tourism hordes, always appalling and something to be avoided at any cost, in my experience, are an artefact of history. They're gone, and good riddance to them.