Thread: When China is King, What Happens to Thailand?

China will get old before it gets rich.
J W Howard.

Originally Posted by ludwig

China will get old before it gets rich.
J W Howard.

Truth to that. What will China do with the aged? Do what they normally do when confronted with problems of human numbers, let people die by the side of the road? We'll see how modern and civilized they are.

Originally Posted by 9999

When China is King, What Happens to Thailand?

we all know the answer ........................

https://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asi...disregard.html (China/Thailand : Thai Government Demonstrates Disregard for Rights)

If you have had close contact with the one child of wealthier middle class Chinese, (say as students), then you have probably already seen China's Achilles heel!
China is set for internal turmoil as these often "spoiled brats" move into public life....Perhaps compulsory military service will smooth them out.....but if not.....internal conflicts of all sorts are likely to occur as this younger generation moves into mainstream government and business.

Originally Posted by Roger Ramjet

these often "spoiled brats"

Just look at the Democrat party, and you're looking at these 'spoiled brats' when they (sort of) grow up. They consider privilege and exclusion a birthright.

Originally Posted by Roger Ramjet

China is set for internal turmoil as these often "spoiled brats" move into public life

The west's spoilt brats have been running their countries for generations.

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by Roger Ramjet

these often "spoiled brats"

Just look at the Democrat party, and you're looking at these 'spoiled brats' when they (sort of) grow up. They consider privilege and exclusion a birthright.

Funny you mentioned that, I watched a really interesting documentary on troubled youth in China and it amazed me of what the parents went through financially to save the little P.O.S's they created. The children were sent to military type isolation camps to break them of their issues. What do the parents do the first chance they get? Spoil them again. What they did not show is how the children faired after their release. If I had to bet they went right back to being the way they were, especially the males.

Originally Posted by 9999

Imagine if the west had cheap 'slave' labour on top of what we have already. How would they be then?

We allready do ,,,, Thais / Phillipino,s working in our care homes , all hours / day,s night,s for the minimum wage

Originally Posted by 9999

With all this talk about US going down the fiscal dunny, whilst China, the sleeping giant, awakens, how do posters think Thailand will fare?

China has been "awake" for nearly 20 years now, and we are experiencing the effects of it's massive dumping of manufacturing goods and undercutting of manufacturing pricing.
I wouldn't be surprised if they had a localised stock market bubble and pop in China at some point either.

Originally Posted by 9999

I'll go out on a limb and say I reckon in 20 years time, the average Thai will be wealthier than the average American. Perhaps the Thais will be holidaying in California, hiring hot white whores by the hour.

They already do... Slavic chicks...
What's an average American anyway? A country with such polarisations of wealth can't really have a meaningful average; same goes for China; and as the average Chinese elite is sitting on a larger pyramid of peons than the average American elite, the wealth gap is likely to be larger.
There's a lot of guff about China, when they talk about it having "the largest economy", implying that they are rich, it reminds me of when people confuse turnover with profit.
China is on the brink of massive ecological collapse, and the economic and political fallout of that is likely to be "interesting" (in the Chinese sense).
Thailand is arguably on the brink of civil war, and a fair bit of ecological pressure as well (drought in Isan; floods along the Chao Paya and sections of coast). Once certain well-known persons pass away and the vultures fly in, I doubt the Beach Boys will be getting so much air time on local radio.

Originally Posted by 9999

Or will Thailand just remain as is, a kind of playground for the rest of the world, rife with corruption and social disparity?

It works.

Originally Posted by 9999

We're talking long term here, like 20+ years from now. How do TD posters think the world will pan out, and Thailand in particular?

20 years = 2021.... the world will be beginning a major growth cycle peaking at around 2030 so great that people will forget all about this huge depression that we're in, and hurtly gayly towards the end of (easy) oil, and then the world will see the biggest economic meltdown in history in the middle of this century, that will not only fuck up North America and Europe, but China and India, and the Middle East too...
Brazil and Russia (the real sleeping giants) will supplant India and China as the economic powerhouses, due to the massive energy price inflation, and their massive reserves of LNG.
Russia, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Venezuela... shall inherit the earth, because they don't have the problems of huge or ageing populations to deal with that their competitor nations do; and consequently, they will be able to outbid their competitors for resources, and there may well be a lot of new big corporate names to get used to.

14000 Chinese arriving in Phuket for Hols in April!