17 hours ago, Shey420 said:

Valuable lesson for all the expats, retirees and potential business owners in thailand from Europe and America. You really mean nothing and they don't want you. Crazy right.

 

Maybe if you all pulled your money out and left they would be forced to treat you better so you'll stay.. 

They never did, bruv.

And if we all up sticks and remove cash it would make not one jot to these guys but hurt the real people.

If you're there and enjoy it, best thing is to keep your head down and avoid the madness.

I have been pretty certain that China has shares or outright owns lots of things

in Thailand like hotels, bus companies, some businesses, and markets, etc. I have

seen a Chinese hotel in,  Jomtien Beach, Pattaya that is Chinese owned, it was built

but never opened due to the covid virus, so yes they want to come back to Thailand for

many reasons.  Guess they are first on the international tourist list as well.  I hope the

tourism industry does get some people back to work as there sure are lots that are

unemployed at present.

Geezer

1 hour ago, daveAustin said:

They never did, bruv.

And if we all up sticks and remove cash it would make not one jot to these guys but hurt the real people.

If you're there and enjoy it, best thing is to keep your head down and avoid the madness.

True!

The Chinese - a great bunch of lads. 

It was the chinese who first brought the C19 to Thailand, will they be the first to bring the Black Death?

21 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

And so Thailand is the first to reward China and totally overlook that they created the virus that wreaked havoc on the world whether intentionally or unintentionally released. I wonder whose pockets are going to bulge from this?

A million dead; countless businesses/lives/families blighted for ever and Thailand shrugs it off in the name the baht.

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Why is someone's nationality even relevant ? Surely you need to allow people in the country based from where they live in general or where they've been stranded since the outbreak. I'm Swiss and I've been in Laos since March where there's been about 20 confirmed cases. Not good enough ?

 

16 hours ago, ukrules said:

China was certainly the first public victim of this virus.

Yes and they created it in their lab and let it out of its tube.

16 hours ago, Sean60 said:

Why don't you stop this BS Chinese created this virus!!! This is the idiot trump talk which has brought USA to its knees. This is a Virus called Covid-19. It is Pandemic. World wide and we need to that it accordingly.

Sorry. Not a Trump fan one bit. China created the virus and either let it out or it got out by mistake. So you have to ask why? I do not  think countries should praise and reward China such as here and letting them in as the first tourists as China needs to be slapped for wreaking havoc on the world from Their created Virus! There comes a point to someone needs to have the balls to say no instead of looking at the greed.

14 hours ago, Isaan sailor said:

Intentionally, I believe.

I think the same.

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

A million dead; countless businesses/lives/families blighted for ever and Thailand shrugs it off in the name the baht.

Pretty much. Rewarding the devil is what it is to someday going to say Master.

Hardly a surprise that the Chinese are welcomed with open arms. The Thai Elite that control the country are all Sino Thai families...

 

The top 50 Thai Chinese families boast a staggering US$160.56 billion in net worth, about 4.86 trillion baht at current exchange rate. To put this in perspective, Thailand’s budget for fiscal year 2019 was three trillion baht. The original budget for 2020 was 3.2 trillion baht. https://www.thebigchilli.com/feature-stories/thailands-six-pack-the-powerful-thai-chinese-families-who-dominate-the-countrys-business-scene

 

How stupid to allow the Chinese back first.The country lying about the number of corona virus cases and number of dead.At least a few in each group will have the virus,which will spread like wildfire and entail a complete shut down.

On 9/29/2020 at 6:03 AM, Chivas said:

Pure Gold. Perhaps someone ought to inform these Thai chiefs that the average stay of a Chinese national is 5 days less than the 2 week quarantine.

You could say similar things about the western tourists.

 

However, same as from western countries, there are a lot of Chinese longstayers here: business people, digital nomads, accompanying kids studying at (far cheaper than in the PRC) international schools.

 

... if one is only looking at Pattaya, Phuket, Samui - then, of cause, they aren’t obvious.

23 hours ago, fondue zoo said:

Did you enjoy living there?

first couple years yes, then things started to change and hard to swallow/accept their racism

On 9/29/2020 at 12:40 PM, userabcd said:

Why not.

 

They seem to have the virus under control and they do make up approx 18% of the world population and are perhaps by tourist numbers spending and investing the most in Thailand travel/tourist/property industry.

 

Unfortunately, in the US, UK and many countries in Europe, the virus is out of control as the inhabitants of those nations feel their freedom of whatever is important.

Ooh yeah, let's turn Thailand into the cess pit that the Chinese have turned Cambodia and Laos into along with countless other places.....  Does anyone remember how good Thailand used to be, or did you all just turn up on the last banana boat ?    

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18 hours ago, uncle_tom said:

That much I doubt. Whether it was a lab accident or just a consequence of too many people living on the planet may one day be revealed..

The truth will only come out if CCP is toppled and they didn't manage to destroy all traces of evidence.

On 9/29/2020 at 11:16 AM, Phuketshrew said:

I do not understand the logistics of this. 150 Chinese will arrive in Phuket on a charter flight to stay for at least 30 days. Are they all going to stay for the same duration? Will there be a charter flight to return them to China after X amount of days?

Maybe Whu-Flu Airlines will come pick them up.

They say that people on STV can extend their visa by 90 and 90 days. Question I have that someone may be able to answer. If they came on a chartered flight, how will they get home if they extend out? The chartered flight really only gives them a 76 day holiday.

28 minutes ago, Advocatus Diaboli said:

The chartered flight really only gives them a 76 day holiday.

I dont think you get a return flight; that wouldn't make sense. When you want to go home, whether after 30 days, 90 days, or perhaps 270 days; you need to find and pay for a flight home.

On ‎9‎/‎29‎/‎2020 at 12:30 PM, Mavideol said:

are they aware Scandinavia consist of 5 countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland) each one reporting completely different infections

 

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/nordic-countries-have-radically-different-coronavirus-strategies—lets-compare-140982

The Nordic Countries Have Radically Different Coronavirus Strategies—Let's Compare

 

Actually not right.... Scandinavia is Denmark Norway and Sweden.   3 countries.

On 9/29/2020 at 11:09 AM, holy cow cm said:

And so Thailand is the first to reward China and totally overlook that they created the virus that wreaked havoc on the world whether intentionally or unintentionally released. I wonder whose pockets are going to bulge from this?

A odd post.This is not a reward for China.China did not create the virus.Therefore it was not "released" intentionally or unintentionally.The proposed admission of tourists is on such a small scale that nobody's pockets are going to bulge.

21 hours ago, Forza2002 said:

Hardly a surprise that the Chinese are welcomed with open arms. The Thai Elite that control the country are all Sino Thai families...

 

The top 50 Thai Chinese families boast a staggering US$160.56 billion in net worth, about 4.86 trillion baht at current exchange rate. To put this in perspective, Thailand’s budget for fiscal year 2019 was three trillion baht. The original budget for 2020 was 3.2 trillion baht. https://www.thebigchilli.com/feature-stories/thailands-six-pack-the-powerful-thai-chinese-families-who-dominate-the-countrys-business-scene

 

An incredible article - thanks for sharing.

A significant quote is; ' a recent article on the Asia Times website calls Thailand’s economy the most unequal in the world. It reports that in 2018, 67% percent of the nation’s wealth was held by 1% of the population, a rapid increase from 58% in 2016.'

So an increase of 9% in two years!  I wonder what it is now?

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On 9/29/2020 at 7:02 PM, ChouDoufu said:

that they apparently could not afford more than 3-5 days vacation.

show me any of my posts where I said that.... try not to mislead please, don't put words on my mouth

4 hours ago, jayboy said:

A odd post.This is not a reward for China.China did not create the virus.Therefore it was not "released" intentionally or unintentionally.The proposed admission of tourists is on such a small scale that nobody's pockets are going to bulge.

Yes they did, and yes it was, and yes they will.

A friend of mine is Thai-Chinese and has a small shop selling Pepsi and also the plastic ducks and <deleted> that they like. He will close his shop soon because the average spend is 20 b per head before the crocodile heads to the next place.

 

Unfortunately, until this year they landed in vast swarms at DM wearing their pink and green tracksuits and shouting at one another. And worse: spitting and peeing plus the legendary defecation by kids on the nearest carpet. Put me in hell any day.

 

Eddy

32 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Yes they did, and yes it was, and yes they will.

That's a very convincing rebuttal - if you are five years old.Grown-ups might not be so easily persuaded.