Nabby

Thailand will take what it can get and that's the end of the story. Living in fantasyland is nothing new for the stupid leadership, but they would do better if they would just keep their idiot mouths shut. Reality: they'll be fighting with Cambodia for begpackers.

Which is why it's going to be more like 2023 or 2024 until they return in significant #s. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan not having any of it. Asia will be the last to "live with Covid."

Just get it over with and bring in Sharia law.

Really not good.

China ruined the world. That's the story in a nutshell.

I would not count on any major improvements in 2022 and it could even get worse.

Exactly. This is not going to work, and those taking this crapshoot will need to have the luxury of factoring in 3 weeks or so banged up in a hospital jail.

Maybe more like 26 months.

Cambodia is definitely a better choice than Thailand. Laos? Erase it from the map. It's a Chinese protectorate now and belongs to the People's Republic of China.

And word is also getting around that Thailand is becoming a dry Islamic no-booze state, so the holiday is looking more like a trip to Saudi.

You must really want to go to Thailand. Keep in mind that you can test positive for Covid before your flight despite your vaccinations and then your plans are ruined. You could also very well catch Covid while in Thailand, fail your pre-flight PCR test, and then it's off to the Covid ward you go in some Bangkok hospital, at your expense. It's a total crapshoot. This is why I say you must really want to go to Thailand.

Only those returning to see family, or those with very specific work-related purposes will be coming to Thailand for the foreseeable future. And a handful of desperados. Millionaires? In your dreams, Thailand. You will be fighting like a ravenous dog with Cambodia for the lowliest backpackers.

Thailand is a basket case, on par with the Philippines and soon to resemble Mindanao. The Islamic Republic of Thailand is just a notch above Myanmar. Cambodia blows Thailand out of the water.

They can argue that it was the magical powers of this historical site that drove them to do it. That would fly in court better than any logical explanation.

Pattaya is the new pilot caliphate for the new Islamic Republic of Thailand

Just get it over with and rename yourself The Islamic Republic of Thailand.

In other words, the so-called "reopening" is a sh*tshow, and Thailand really has no idea what it's doing. Travelers would do well to give Thailand a wide birth for the next three years.

One hell of an old question/topic. New to the Internet?

And no tourism and no economy. Enjoy.

Can this island handle a significant uptick in traffic? I doubt it. If I'm not mistaken, the road doesn't even ring the entire island. So what's the answer? Bulldoze through the pristine national park to complete it? Disaster in the making. This is a waste of money.

The invasion has been imminent for decades.

Wrong. ALL Chinese will support an invasion because they are all brainwashed, just like you. You are very obviously a wumao 50-cent troll. Let me give you some advice: if you're going to lie, try to do so in a way in which people might be believe you; don't lie in such a way that everyone knows you're lying -that just makes you look stupid. The people of Taiwan utterly despite China and the CCP. That's why they voted for the DPP the last two elections. The KMT is a dinosaur brigade that has been humiliated in the past elections, and the best thing for their aging members to do would be to dissolve the party and form something new. You spew misinformation, and it's so obvious. Taiwanese, by and large, hate China, and China hates them. And that's just fine because China is, and always will be, too cowardly to actually attempt an invasion. If they could, they would. Simple as that.

For anyone saying that the idea of China invading Taiwan is something new or recent, it's embarrassing to read. You obviously don't live in Asia, but are writing from some backwater in Alberta or Perth or Texas and don't get out much. China has been making threats and firing missiles into the Taiwan Strait since the 1990s, and it has been escalating since. Actually, they've been launching missiles at each other in a kind of gentleman's game of war when Mao was in power from Fujian province to Taiwan's Kinmen Island which is visible from the Mainland (and of course vice versa) on a clear day. This idea is nothing new. Which cave district do you live in? It's actually very simple, this big, bad, new, mysterious, foreboding, surprising idea: China invading Taiwan. I'll break it down for you: if China could, they would. They can't, so they don't. That's it. That's all there is. There are way too many unknowns for China's taste. First, there's the chance that Taiwan might either beat them or hold them off sufficiently. If they US committed just 10% of their forces it is over. The Taiwan Strait becomes the PLA and PLAN watery graveyard. Don't think so, then please explain why they have never even tried to invade Taiwan in all these years. If anything will see Xi get torn to shreds by his opponents and the millions he has wrong in China, it is failure in a Taiwan debacle. And he fears that as much as Hu Jintao and Jiang Zamin did. Not happening.

Thailand is an Animist country, truth be told.

Should have delivered him a metal. Did society a favor.