Why Thailand could be the big winner as China and Japan start to work together

[rooster59]

Why Thailand could be the big winner as China and Japan start to work together

Lee Jeong-ho

 

 

Thailand has emerged as a major beneficiary from improved relations between China and Japan by providing opportunities for joint development initiatives to offset the problems caused by increasingly aggressive US trade policies.

 

Observers also noted that as well as providing opportunities for economic collaboration, the choice of Thailand allowed Japan to check China’s expanding influence over Southeast Asia.

 

Both countries have been under pressure to act to cut their trade surplus with America, prompting a renewed effort to put their differences aside.

 

A “Third-Party Market Cooperation Forum” in Beijing on Friday highlighted what form this may take as businesses signed a series of agreements on infrastructure initiatives in other countries.

 

Full story: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2170391/why-thailand-could-be-big-winner-china-and-japan-start-work

 

South China Morning Post: 2018-10-28

[Classic Ray]

Or it could be that Thailand suffers from increasingly isolationist US policies, especially with its problems with human rights abuses, labour practices on the fishing fleets and quality issues on products like fish sauce

[hotchilli]

China & Japan will screw Thailand into oblivion... Thailand just can't see it coming!

[DrTuner]

Something co-operative like Nanking? Thais will be happy to serve as comfort wives as seen by the benz driving giks in BKK, so I get Japan's angle. Don't see them getting chummy with Chinese, more like a Triad-Yakuza turf war.

[Johnnyngai]

Thailand was an allies of Japan during WW2.   

There was never any major mass killing of Chinese in Thailand, unlike in Indonesia. 

 

I believe both the Chinese and Japanese have much positive opinion of Thailand.       

[MaxLee]

On 10/28/2018 at 6:37 AM, rooster59 said:

Why Thailand could be the big winner as China and Japan start to work together

WHile Thailand is just standing on the sidelines, as always