On 5/15/2021 at 12:31 PM, TheFreqFlyer said:

you don't stand a chance at making it here. Thailand is a hostile country for SMEs.

No kidding. Ridiculous how SME has become such a buzzword here. Yet the side of the roads are riddled with failed little businesses falling apart, as how could they compete with the big boxes, or the 7-11s on every corner. I've also been to several Issan cities where their downtown areas have become decimated, once a Central came to town. Now Lotus has just been added to the CP empire, met with protest but no official opposition.

On 5/16/2021 at 3:34 PM, connda said:

You need to study Western imperialism.  What you've described sounds exactly like the Western model of imposing their interests on poor but resource rich nations. 
Buy the political power at the top, rape the resource, spit on the poor, build a soccer stadium, claim moral success.
China - "Bad"
West - "Good" 
Geo-political relativism at its finest.

Too bad they treat their own people the same-and killed millions of them in the past.  Zero freedom with the surveillance state, and death or jail to those that speak out-including family-slightly different take.

On 5/16/2021 at 3:28 PM, connda said:

This is Western Agenda 2030 in a nutshell. That is what is being proposed in the name of climate change and sustainability.
China - "Bad"
West - "Good"
No - it is all relative.

Conspiracies are a dime a dozen these days 

On 5/14/2021 at 11:28 PM, DirtyHarry55 said:

Or maybe they're happy with the high level of kickbacks China pays?
Surprised they're not worried about the communism factor.

Communism, bureaucracy, quasi military rule, what's the difference? They are oligarchies ruled by a few, or a few with many sucking at the tits. 

On 5/15/2021 at 1:48 AM, sqwakvfr said:

How a nation with over a billion people got out of poverty?:  One Child Per Family.  Selective Abortion of girls.

 

Does Thailand really want to follow this example?  If so then good luck.  Right now China has a gender imbalance problem.  Too many men and not enough women.  

Make sausages.  Feed the masses. Dong Schlong. 

On 5/15/2021 at 12:52 PM, The Cipher said:

 

Do you by any chance have a source for poverty reduction in China being driven specifically by sex selective abortion rather than, I don't know, export-oriented industrialization?

 I think he was trying to make a linear correlation between population reduction and poverty reduction. 

 

To add into the export orientated industrialization, we must add the caveat ' under pinned by currency manipulation '

 

 

China is now a lower middle income country according to the World Bank. For Middle income countries $4.50 per day is considered the poverty line. Currently around 400 million Chinese live below that threshold.

 

$1.90 is the threshold for extreme poverty. Less that 10 million Chinese live on less than that per day. Which is impressive. 

 

But the 2 dollar gap between poverty and extreme poverty contains slot of Chinese still.

 

And the minimum daily wage is 300 baby a day or $10 dollars a day in Thailand. Maybe China should be looking to Thailand. 

 

 

An economist was asked at a forum which country would lead the world the next century China or USA.

He said: Short answer; if you were a resourceful and well educated refugee. Which of these countries would you flee to?

On 5/16/2021 at 12:41 PM, Rookiescot said:

 

Western countries and organisations dont tend to put pressure on countries to actively make life difficult for minority groups.

No, they definitely don't do it openly.