BANGKOK, June 2 (TNA) – The US Deputy Secretary of State promised to increase Thailand’s access to COVID-19 vaccines.

 

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman made the promise in her meeting with Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha during her visit to Thailand.

 

Mrs Sherman said the US intended to supply COVID-19 vaccines to countries to help them get through the pandemic and thus it was ready to offer Thailand’s access to the vaccines.

 

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Sounds interesting.

 

How much meat is on this bone remains to be seen.

 

 

All I got out of this was a that the United States "is ready to help Thailand procure Covid-19 vaccines".

 

No clue what that means? Vaccine swap? Straight up donation? Loan? Here, use our credit card?

 

 

 

555 ....maybe one of the many reasons to keep the BATH over valuated, it makes it easy to buy foreign vaccines   555

6 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

Sounds interesting.

 

How much meat is on this bone remains to be seen.

 

 

All I got out of this was a that the United States "is ready to help Thailand procure Covid-19 vaccines".

 

No clue what that means? Vaccine swap? Straight up donation? Loan? Here, use our credit card?

 

 

 

maybe same type of "donation" as China did    555

Here comes the cavalry

did the PM said "no, no, no" as he said to pfizer offer and Indian ambassador offer back in December?

As an excuse he has "“We didn’t order many vaccines at the start because THEY WERE NOT PROVEN TO BE SUCCESSFUL” during today’s debate at Parliament

2 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

maybe same type of "donation" as China did    555

Would be fun if the US demands foreign nationals get priority. 

The US government can supply vaccines as foreign aid to foreign countries and yet they can not (will not) supply vaccines to their own US citizens overseas!
And yet China can supply their citizens overseas with vaccines.
What else do you need to know about our exceptional nation and how we expats (don't) benefit from our country's largess?

So - the US will supply Thailand with vaccines, and then US citizens abroad will be placed at the end of the line to receive their vaccines after Thais get their shots which were given to them by the US Government???
Does that sound about right?
The Thai government has a racist distribution policy that will be directly supported by the US government as US citizens are put at the end of the vaccination lines.
This reads better then a Kurt Vonnegut novel - you can't make this stuff up!
Welcome to Wacky-World ????

 

35 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

No clue what that means? Vaccine swap? Straight up donation? Loan? Here, use our credit card?

 

Buy our homemade AZ vaccine and send the vaccines back together with a submarine????

45 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

555 ....maybe one of the many reasons to keep the BATH over valuated, it makes it easy to buy foreign vaccines   555

Interesting concept.  

Believe it or not it was America who put the THB on the manipulated currency list and insisted on these measures, not the other way around.  That is why it is so high.

It's going to become normal for first world countries to supply third world countries with vaccines as they get vaccinated.  You will see much of this in the coming six months.  They are not going to hold onto vaccines they cannot use.  

If Im not mistaken, Canada has the most per capita, I think enough to vaccinate its citizens six times over.  The US will have much more to give out than anyone very shortly.  

Things are looking up - but again, administering these doses takes much time.  And I write again Thailand hasn't even figured out the almighty question who - who will administer 60 million doses X2?  They seem incapable of anything but a knee - jerk reaction to problems.  

Used to be arms, now the US and China are using vaccines to gain influence. It will be interesting to see how China react in regards to giving more vaccine too.  Thailand, they just play both sides.............

Whatever the details and how it gets (mis)manged locally. that headline is good news.

1 hour ago, Blumpie said:

 They seem incapable of anything but a knee - jerk reaction to problems.  

 

So it is and always has been. People who wanted to change this got the boot.

I think the US should donate vaccines to Thailand just like China did. Meaning, to vaccinate US citizens ???? 

21 minutes ago, nowhereman said:

I think the US should donate vaccines to Thailand just like China did. Meaning, to vaccinate US citizens ???? 

I hope the US has a bit more sense than the blundering Chinese and don't stipulate that its citizens go to the head of the line. That smacks of a colonialist attitude.

The U.S. has pledged to supply about 20 million CV vaccine doses to foreign countries, haven't seen any exact breakdown of who the recipients are supposed to be, but I recall Canada and Mexico supposedly being among them.

 

A goodly share of those vaccines, according to the news reports, are supposed to come from a J&J contract factory run by an outfit called Emergent that got shut down for various kinds of misdeeds. But the last report I saw the other day said, J&J and the feds were close to a deal on reopening the plant and making use of the supposedly viable vaccines held in stock there.

 

FDA, J&J Near Deal for Covid-19 Vaccine Production at Baltimore Plant

 

Deal could allow 60 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine to be cleared by FDA

...

The emergency use authorization for the plant to produce Covid-19 vaccine could be made next week, the U.S. officials said. That could help toward fulfilling President Biden’s pledges to share 20 million doses from J&J, Pfizer Inc. PFE +0.91% and Moderna Inc. MRNA +4.72% with the rest of the world by the end of June.

 

(more)

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-j-j-near-deal-for-covid-19-vaccine-production-at-baltimore-plant-11622154824

 

Perhaps all the local hubbub and letter writing by the expat organizations in Thailand has caught the attention at someone in the State Department or the broader federal government.  If so, it's probably better than nothing.... but the devil's always in the details.

 

I dunno about anyone else, but I know my opinion -- if the U.S. is gonna donate CV doses abroad, I think it oughta be with the same stipulation that China had with Thailand. We will donate the doses, and you will use part of them to vaccinate any of our nationals who can't otherwise get vaccinated. I see no problem with that kind of stipulation, either by the Chinese or by the U.S.

 

 

41 minutes ago, nowhereman said:

I think the US should donate vaccines to Thailand just like China did. Meaning, to vaccinate US citizens ???? 

 

A pretty small portion of the total Sinovac vaccines China has given to Thailand went to their own expats here... I think, China has already or soon will have given Thailand about 6 million doses, and the setaside portion for their own citizens was supposedly for up to 100,000 Chinese nationals.

 

Like it or not, if it weren't for the Chinese and their Sinovac, all of Thailand would have been pretty much S-O-O-L for CV vaccines for the past several months since they began vaccinating, with only a very small allocation of imported AZ as their other source.

 

Such was the wisdom of those in charge here.

 

In this case, speaking as an American, the U.S. totally got owned by China when it came to "vaccine diplomacy" with Thailand.

 

Thailand is supposed to be an important regional ally for the U.S., notwithstanding its close ties to China... But the U.S. govt. and the State Department got totally left in the dust on this one, while the Chinese did what they've been doing around the world in a variety of venues/sectors to ingratiate themselves with the locals.

 

What could the U.S. Embassy folks in BKK and the SE Asian State Department folks have been thinking while they stood idly by and watched China leave them flat-footed.

 

Unsubstantiated and speculative remarks/responses removed.

It's still just lip service re-announcing the same announcement. The US continues to hoard raw materials as well.  Meanwhile, the EU, China, and Russia continue exporting vaccines as they have been doing since day 1.

9 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Mrs Sherman said the US intended to supply COVID-19 vaccines to countries to help them get through the pandemic and thus it was ready to offer Thailand’s access to the vaccines.

Maybe she is just saying the US sees Thailand as a Third world country now.

US provided $30 million in COVID-19 related assistance to Thailand

 

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman, left, and Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, right, give the traditional greeting or “wai” at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (Government Spokesman Office via AP)

 

The US government has provided $30 million in COVID-related assistance to Thailand, as a part of their commitment to help the country fight the pandemic, according to the US Embassy in Bangkok during a visit by the US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.

 

Sherman met with Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha in Bangkok on Tuesday, during her first foreign trip since her appointment.

 

According to a press release from the US Embassy, they discussed ties between the US and Thailand, Mekong regional issues, and the crisis in Myanmar.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/us-to-provide-30-million-in-covid-19-related-assistance-to-thailand/

 

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Madame Secretary, you are greeting the PM of Thailand not saluting your opponent 

in an Octagon cage fight.

Stupid, dirty Farangs to the rescue again, as always.

 

It must hurts the Thais to be in a position where they have to accept help of this kind.

5 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

In this case, speaking as an American, the U.S. totally got owned by China when it came to "vaccine diplomacy" with Thailand.

 

Thailand is supposed to be an important regional ally for the U.S., notwithstanding its close ties to China... But the U.S. govt. and the State Department got totally left in the dust on this one, while the Chinese did what they've been doing around the world in a variety of venues/sectors to ingratiate themselves with the locals.

 

What could the U.S. Embassy folks in BKK and the SE Asian State Department folks have been thinking while they stood idly by and watched China leave them flat-footed.

 

 

 

Supply and demand. The demand for US vaccines was and remains huge. There wasn't enough to go around. And were Thailand actually trying to buy US vaccines a couple of months ago? The US can only sell to countries who are interested in buying.

 

Let's hope that the US and Thailand can make some US vaccines available later in the year. I imagine there will be some excess AZ available from the UK and Europe soon, too, and China may have more to send Thailand's way.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Fex Bluse said:

Stupid, dirty Farangs to the rescue again, as always.

 

It must hurts the Thais to be in a position where they have to accept help of this kind.

Certainly the loss of many many faces in accepting defeat from a virus that couldn't be defeated with their military no how. Goodbye Junta government THE END

11 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Here comes the cavalry

 

One interpretation, perhaps the US is using this to cozy up to Thailand and limit Thailand's closeness to China? 

4 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

One interpretation, perhaps the US is using this to cozy up to Thailand and limit Thailand's closeness to China? 

 

 

The more vaccines the better ????

Do you mean a Moderna for Sinovac swap?

 

just gov speak...

When the US starts handing out excess jabs, Thailand will be way down the list.  It's not even in the top 20 with regards to expats.  Mexico is right at the top, and a close neighbor.  As is Canada.

 

https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/countries-with-most-american-expats-2020#gid=ci02728a2e500024ad&pid=2-canada-victoria-vancouver-island-bc-sh