Topic #1

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The Topic Is:   After watching 30 days of ongoing news on both informal social media sites, as well as on mainstream media outlets, do you believe that many Expats will soon be flocking to Thailand cities, primarily BKK, in order to escape irrational Chinese lockdowns, as well as other forms of authoritarian CCP highhandedness?

 

Dear Friends,

 

Watching the news out of China, these days, and paying attention, just a bit, to social media, it seems that many "foreigners" seem to be planning to leave China.

 

Some YT bloggers, even, have stated that they intend to move from China to Thailand.  We cannot know if this is true, or not true.

 

However, the question is:....

 

After reading this news, and not saying whether it might be fake news, do you now not feel that you are rather lucky to be here in Thailand, as opposed to be living in China?

 

Several years ago, living in China was "all the rage" for youngish people who had no inkling of the history of the CCP.

 

Young foreigners, new to places like Shanghai, believed that they were impervious to any negative impacts from a Marxist-Leninist Chinese state, one now ruled by Mr. Xi.

 

Now, the worm has turned on them.  Yes, I mean the Worm.

 

The CCP Worm has become clear as day for so many who thought Life under such a progressive place as China would be great, and that the party would never end.

 

Unfortunately, the Party has not ended, yet.

 

And now, many farang living in China wish to leave. (Who knows why.)

 

So the question might be:  Will the exodus out of China, for foreigners, continue?  Will many of them flock to BKK?

 

And, will these young YT bloggers enjoy life in Thailand far more than they ever did in China?

 

And, will they enjoy the food here far more than they ever did enjoy the food in Shanghai?

 

(Shanghainese cuisine is not something I have ever rated highly.)

 

Personally speaking, if one comes from China to Thailand, there is very little opportunity to use one's Chinese language skills, once one arrives.

 

Maybe these young video bloggers will need to learn a new language, passa Thai.

 

Maybe it is a good thing to try to be trilingual.

 

Perhaps, these youngster video bloggers are finally getting a taste of reality.

 

Not sure.

 

Who knows.

 

Regards,

 

Note: There are those who will remain in China, and these are the same youngsters who will endure the draconian lockdown with a stiff upper lip.  Why?  Well, principally, due to the Stockholm syndrome.  The remaining farang guys in Shanghai might have been either Shanghaied or now be identifying with their captors.