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On a related note, the only Pan Pacific Co I can find in property development on DBD company website is Chinese owned.

Now let me see : AseanNow sourced from —-> Daily News sourced from ——> People’s Daily = Google search. ”The People’s Daily is the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party”. Excellent.

We’ll likely never know who fired the first shot. What we do know is that Cambodia has been indiscriminately launching missiles at civilian areas, resulting in the deaths of non-combatants.

From reports, they were firing BM21s which appear to have a range of < 50km. They were highly reckless firing into civilian areas around the border yesterday, if they somehow escalated to your sort of range and deeper into Thailand territory I think they could reasonably expect the Thai Air Force to further bomb the absolute living c--p out of them and start attacking military targets deeper in Cambodia. Thailand has total military superiority, so it would be stupid to continue poking the bear. Social media is full of nationalists of both sides with the cut, copy and paste statements. Quite frankly, I don't really care and we will never find out who fired the first shot, was does seem evident is that the Cambodians were indiscriminately firing missiles into Thai civilian areas. I expect most neutral observers will judge that extremely negatively. The Cambodian leadership likely won't care a jot about global opinion, this whole exercise is more for domestic consumption and affirming their grip on power. #Team Thailand

Yeah right, let's come back in 2 years and see how this plays out. US is around 30% of global GDP and it has solid geopolitical allies (despite current posturing) in the Anglosphere, EU, Japan & Middle East, that make up another 30% or so. These tariffs are impacting only the 18% of US economy linked to goods, the other 82% is services based. The only current economic competitor is China, with around 20% of global GDP, 5x the population of US and a misfiring economy. We can see how they treat their "friends" with their massive trade surplus with a poorer country in Thailand.

If that’s true, a future episode of air crash investigation just waiting to happen ?…

Question : Most, if not all of us will work or have social engagement in the following: Family Workplace Social activity: arts, sports etc If these were based around an untouchable and unquestionable dogma combined with a strict hierarchy, how happy would you be as a member and how truly successful would these organisations be ? How accountable and transparent would leadership of such organisations be ? There you go. You have your answers for many of the problems in Thai society.

Hubba, hubba, hubba. Lots of buzzwords, which is what I see daily in my Thai corporate life. Proof, if it were needed, of lack of any substantial plan and only a reliance on buzzwords to propose policy. China is only focusing on this as they wish to supply EV to EU & US. Both EU and US have recently significantly rolled back their Carbon and EV targets. Sadly all these focus areas are mostly CCP focused industries. If Thailand believes it will ever be exporting EV/Net Zero products to China, think again…

That's a pretty good list. 1 and 7 are also creeping up on the sidelines. Just had some silly daily transfer limit slapped on my Thai bank accounts as I am a foreigner (even with a WP/Visa) and we all know, ad nauseam, about the potential taxes on income transfers into Thailand I'm still working for a few more years yet which will definitely keep me here during my working life. Very likely I will retire here but not set in stone. The only thing I would add would be a change in marital status at some point in the future. My wife is a major reason for me staying in Thailand, if we divorced or heaven forbid, she passed away, I would consider going back to the UK either full or part-time. I still have a good circle of family and friends back there.

This tale surely serves as a stark reminder as well. Edit : I stand corrected there was indeed a "stark warning" included in the OP 🙂

Great news, maybe under that FTA Thailand could reduce their massive trade deficit with China.

I just saw the TTB notice in my app today also. As you mention, apparently need to visit a branch to give biometrics starting 12/7. Not entirely clear from their blurb what will happen after this is done… Not uncommon (couple of times a month) that I will be transferring >50k, don’t really want to be messing around with multi-day installments. This is clearly a BoT/government regulation so for those suggesting changing banks, good luck with that.

I’m not sure of Thai arrogance but agreeing a better tariff deal will take some major and decisive action by Thai authorities. Respectfully, not something they are well known for. Adding to Thailand’s predicament along with a large trade surplus with the US is the huge trade deficit they have with Trump’s nemesis, China. Quite a lot to unravel for Thailand, if indeed, they wish to do so.

Whatever one’s thoughts on Taksin, it would seem that the family is slowly but surely running out of “untainted” options for any future political opportunities. Throwing your young(ish) and clearly unqualified daughter into the political arena and under the bus to get power does reek of egomaniacal tendencies. Time will tell but just maybe Taksin has been outmaneuvered on this one, being offered an insincere olive branch which his ego wouldn’t allow him to refuse and may have led to the ultimate downfall of his political clan.

Hilarious. Except for Chinese submarines, of course. The Generals won’t like this kind of attitude which would limit envelope opportunities.