What Will The Future Look Like For Thailand?

[seanocasey]

lessons from history.

Korea’s relatively low ranking reflects the inclusion of North Korea. Yet several South Korean companies, such as Samsung and Hyundai, have become global household names competing successfully against far more established brands, such as Sony and Honda.

Indeed, South Korea has shown how a poor country without natural resources can become a world-class economy. China was at the bottom of the rankings 30 years ago, but at its present rate it will soon overtake Thailand. In several key sectors such as financial services and retail, China is already more open than Thailand. The quality of China’s roads and telecommunication puts to shame Thailand’s uneven, badly maintained streets and its slow and expensive Internet service.

Likewise, China has identified three of its universities as candidates to join the world’s top 10 in the near future. Without quality education, there cannot be a quality work force, and without that, no country can hope to compete in a world where the march of globalization cannot be stopped. To that end, the government is injecting public capital, while wealthy graduates are pouring in private money in the style of American alumni donors.

By contrast, Thailand’s government and local elite seem content to remain a provincial country shielded from global competition in science and technology. Foreign employers are appalled by the poor quality of Thailand’s education system, whose graduates have little foreign language proficiency and possess scant analytical skills.

Competition is not a zero-sum game. The successes of Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and South Korea should serve as a powerful reminder that Thailand has great potential, if only its elites would stop behaving like spoiled children playing a game at which only they are allowed to win.

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[Heng]

Teochiu eh ?

The issaanites of China.

People are different for sure . If you really believe that , then don't pigeon - hole according to their tribe .

But if you are going to do so , bear in mind that Caucasians and Jews are top of the league , and you mongoloids are just making up the numbers .

Welcome to the layer cake, son .

LOL, must have touched a nerve.

Will continue to pigeon-hole, thanks.

Looks like you haven't been paying attention who makes, owns, and is now owed +interest (again, except for a few hundred year blip in the scheme of things) most of the cake.

[zzaa09]

Teochiu eh ?

The issaanites of China.

People are different for sure . If you really believe that , then don't pigeon - hole according to their tribe .

But if you are going to do so , bear in mind that Caucasians and Jews are top of the league , and you mongoloids are just making up the numbers .

Welcome to the layer cake, son .

LOL, must have touched a nerve.

Will continue to pigeon-hole, thanks.

Looks like you haven't been paying attention who makes, owns, and is now owed +interest (again, except for a few hundred year blip in the scheme of things) most of the cake.

...and less we forget these Mongoloid races that seemingly brought the other civilisations into line. If not for their influence and contributions - where would we be.

[PattayaParent]

lessons from history.

Korea's relatively low ranking reflects the inclusion of North Korea. Yet several South Korean companies, such as Samsung and Hyundai, have become global household names competing successfully against far more established brands, such as Sony and Honda.

Indeed, South Korea has shown how a poor country without natural resources can become a world-class economy.

This should actually say "Indeed South Korea has shown how a poor country without natural resources can become a world-class economy with massive amounts of money from the US and their world banking supporters in return for establishing massive militart bases in their country in order to combat a paranoid threat of Communism since the 1950's"

[DP25]

Caucasian founders/management can be beneficial in some cases, just look at economic power houses like Burma, Congo, and Zimbabwe.

Successful countries that went in to total and complete economic collapse after the Caucasians were gone?

[Gob]

Teochiu eh ?

The issaanites of China.

People are different for sure . If you really believe that , then don't pigeon - hole according to their tribe .

But if you are going to do so , bear in mind that Caucasians and Jews are top of the league , and you mongoloids are just making up the numbers .

Welcome to the layer cake, son .

LOL, must have touched a nerve.

Will continue to pigeon-hole, thanks.

Looks like you haven't been paying attention who makes, owns, and is now owed +interest (again, except for a few hundred year blip in the scheme of things) most of the cake.

Not touched a nerve , but an acute sense of fairness . A caucasian trait .

Hundreds of millions of chinese want to know where is their slice of cake , they haven't seen it .

Intellectual capital is where its at for whitey nowadays.

[Heng]

Caucasian founders/management can be beneficial in some cases, just look at economic power houses like Burma, Congo, and Zimbabwe.

Successful countries that went in to total and complete economic collapse after the Caucasians were gone?

Perhaps, but that's not the same as 'crediting the founders,' which was apparently 'Gob's' point.

[Heng]

Teochiu eh ?

The issaanites of China.

People are different for sure . If you really believe that , then don't pigeon - hole according to their tribe .

But if you are going to do so , bear in mind that Caucasians and Jews are top of the league , and you mongoloids are just making up the numbers .

Welcome to the layer cake, son .

LOL, must have touched a nerve.

Will continue to pigeon-hole, thanks.

Looks like you haven't been paying attention who makes, owns, and is now owed +interest (again, except for a few hundred year blip in the scheme of things) most of the cake.

Not touched a nerve , but an acute sense of fairness . A caucasian trait .

Hundreds of millions of chinese want to know where is their slice of cake , they haven't seen it .

Intellectual capital is where its at for whitey nowadays.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that and you'll really believe it.

Trickle down, baby.

Pouting over copyright infringement sounds like a great long term business plan.

[Gob]

Teochiu eh ?

The issaanites of China.

People are different for sure . If you really believe that , then don't pigeon - hole according to their tribe .

But if you are going to do so , bear in mind that Caucasians and Jews are top of the league , and you mongoloids are just making up the numbers .

Welcome to the layer cake, son .

LOL, must have touched a nerve.

Will continue to pigeon-hole, thanks.

Looks like you haven't been paying attention who makes, owns, and is now owed +interest (again, except for a few hundred year blip in the scheme of things) most of the cake.

Not touched a nerve , but an acute sense of fairness . A caucasian trait .

Hundreds of millions of chinese want to know where is their slice of cake , they haven't seen it .

Intellectual capital is where its at for whitey nowadays.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that and you'll really believe it.

Trickle down, baby.

Pouting over copyright infringement sounds like a great long term business plan.

Ok I will .

Has been tried before , doesn't work.

We will keep inventing things , you will continue to make cheap knock offs ,I don't doubt it .

[thaifkrlim]

A rare example of a shadowy white supremacist, the caucasian trait of exploiting the economies of East Asia and its incredible resources, yes many people have seen it.

[Forethat]

although it would obviously benefit thais if thailand developed into a singapore type country, it would drain the fun from the country - let's face it, singapore is pretty boring. clean, safe and organised but unbelievably boring IMO.

In my opinion - and with the fact that a lot of welth is concentrated to Bangkok - there's a chance this could actually happen. Cut away the provinces currently spawning nothing but poor peasants arsoning shopping malls and there's your opportunity for a new Singapore right there...

[Heng]

Ok I will .

Has been tried before , doesn't work.

We will keep inventing things , you will continue to make cheap knock offs ,I don't doubt it .

Trickle down has nothing to do with trying, it's basic physics. What 'didn't work' was expecting more to trickle down than was possible or even likely. You can't expect to be producing masses of middle class overnight, but having folks that couldn't afford 3 basic necessities yesterday only having to stretch their budget to get 2 does happen.

Living in the past dude. Cheap to make yes, but charging 50-90% of the items with license from GE/RR aircraft engine parts to every single pharmaceutical that can be reverse engineered (basically all of them) to LV/CC bags, there's no stopping the machine. What's particularly amusing are the legions of companies that got their start in making grey and black market goods using revenue from said sales of said goods to expand their operations and are now partners with the companies whose goods they used to copy and produce. Makes for an easier flow of information, that's for sure. Try coming up with an example of something you think can't be copied.

[Gob]

A rare example of a shadowy white supremacist, the caucasian trait of exploiting the economies of East Asia and its incredible resources, yes many people have seen it.

I'm not anything of the sort . Just giving 'Heng' some of his own medicine .

[Heng]

Hopefully you're not done yet.