Xi Jinping invites Srettha to Beijing for economic talks as he finalises his new cabinet lineup

[Arthur Mullard]

1 minute ago, spidermike007 said:

Where do you see exposes today? Where is the investigative journalism? Anywhere? Much less here? 

Indeed ????

[Arthur Mullard]

On 9/2/2023 at 5:17 AM, hotchilli said:

Srettha hasn't had time to see if he can get his feet under the table yet, and Xi wants him to pop-over for a chat about letting China send all it's fake products and scammers over.

And don't forget those police stations.....

[Arthur Mullard]

On 9/2/2023 at 8:04 AM, soalbundy said:

This is just a normal diplomatic gesture that the local dominant political entity offers to a new leader in the neighbourhood, America does the same thing with European leaders. Srettha will probably want to know if the place is dry yet before he goes.

I would argue that there is a more than general sense a lot will hang on this meeting for "desperate backed-into-a-corner" Xi... 

[mokwit]

On 9/2/2023 at 1:47 PM, LALes said:

Time for China to ramp up the pressure for the Kra Canal.  Its been on the drawing board for about a decade and they must be getting antsy by now.

You'd think they wanted secure access to the Indian Ocean for their warships or something.

Edited September 3, 2023 by mokwit

[Arthur Mullard]

On 9/2/2023 at 10:42 AM, Adumbration said:

It is getting very close to the end game now.

 

Thailand needs to be very careful what side it chooses:

 

https://youtu.be/e15HIKbxid4?si=TZo4Y3hWOgusgmpc

 

On 9/2/2023 at 11:30 AM, RanongCat said:

Usual phobics. China is biggest trade partner with Thailand . Thailand has no need accede to whining critics from faltering West economies.

One wonders thinking about it... the move by the wealthy Chinese to (desperately) get their money out, with Thai real estate being a key target, and the extreme longterm aims of Chinese to effectively renounce their citizenship in order to keep their money safe from the CCP (through bearing children with Thai citizenship), perhaps there will be more on the forthcoming agenda than tourism and trade deals? The above was recently publicised on YouTube under China buying up real estate in Thailand BTW. 

[2baht]

1 hour ago, Arthur Mullard said:

The Emperors were the educated elite weren't they ????

There's only ONE Emperor!

[placnx]

23 hours ago, connda said:

Nativity tends to be the bastion of Western expats who strap the anchor of their government's own pro-colonialist propaganda around their waists, and then fail to take off the rose-tinted glasses to see the realities around them when they leave their own borders and reside elsewhere in the world.

China does not have 800 military bases world-wide in order to enforce Power Projection at the end of a gun for the enrichment of US-backed corporate and "stakeholder" interests.  The United States (and it's allies) on the contrary - Do. ????

Take the time to read books by Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski or at least read policy papers from the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) (their magazine, Foreign Affairs, is less than $40/year) as US and Western foreign policy objectives are spelled out quite clearly for those who can read at a high school level. But most expats I know get their Geo-political viewpoints from 2 minute sound-bites on CNN or MSNBC or other MSM outlets, or short MSM filtered sound-bites from White House and State Department "Pressers", or from completely unbiased digital tomes like <laughs> Wikipedia. 
Filter a CFR policy paper through CNN, it gets edited to a few sound bites as the average MSM-consumer has the attention-span of a gnat, and what you get is quite simple:
"China Bad; US Good"  - if anyone says different?  They are a <add pejorative here>, e.g., 'a propagandist.' 

 

Kissinger has a long history enabling and promoting China, and Brzezinski is long dead. We can read plenty of China skeptics in Foreign Affairs these days.

[placnx]

23 hours ago, John Drake said:

Bitter, yes. But not always third rate. The Chinese have bought off quite a few highly credentialed Western faculty and their publication history. That boosts the rankings of Chinese universities. And when I say "bought off," that means they pay a lot for people with lengthy resumes. Some of those people are now on trial in the US for espionage. Then, there are always people who can supply Chinese academics with q1 quality papers for a price. I must admit, it is sometimes tempting to think of picking up $US50,000 to $75,000 rather than just put another entry on the CV.

It will be interesting to see what garbage accumulates in Chinese journals as AI starts writing articles for their distinguished academics. 

[placnx]

23 hours ago, mokwit said:

China is practicing colonial expansion via it's economic colonialism.

 

In fairness they are only just getting started so it will take a while to catch up, bases S China Seas islands, aircraft carrier sized wharves in Island nations, even Chinese troops in some African country if I remember rightly.

Djibouti naval base. Djibouti is in Africa, on the Red Sea. Also they bought control of Piraeus port in Greece.

Edited September 4, 2023 by placnx

[placnx]

23 hours ago, Arthur Mullard said:

The Emperors were the educated elite weren't they ????

Education was rote learning in those days.

[Arthur Mullard]

21 hours ago, placnx said:

Education was rote learning in those days.

Did you say "in those days"..................... ????

[RanongCat]

On 9/2/2023 at 1:01 PM, Mavideol said:

just a word of advise if I may.... China claims ALL of SCS and some of the Himalayas and next may be Thailand  555

China’s new national map has angered its neighbors

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/31/india/india-china-map-protest-intl-hnk/index.html

India and Malaysia protest China's land claim in a newly published map ahead of the G20 summit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/30/india-china-territorial-dispute-g20-xi-modi/4263af26-46f8-11ee-b76b-0b6e5e92090d_story.html

China's new map of borders angers India, Philippines, Malaysia

https://www.9news.com.au/world/china-new-territorial-map-angers-neighbours-india-philippines-malaysia/0bca9c69-b21c-4998-a566-cef3783660d1

China new map is maybe in respond to US claim to rest of world ?

[placnx]

4 hours ago, Arthur Mullard said:

Did you say "in those days"..................... ????

Before it was memorizing the Analects of Confucius. Maybe next it will be XJP's thought. Good luck - the Chinese economy is in sabotage mode due to such "thought".