No, I was referring to News in Bangkok blog, search there for three posts “Chinese in Bangkok.”

Here it is, I found it, three posts (this blog has changed its template since, thus I couldn’t recall its name immediately):

http://news.inbangkok.org/?p=497
http://news.inbangkok.org/?p=501
http://news.inbangkok.org/?p=534

As you can see, I have made a comment to first post, and provided some more links to other articles on the matter.

Especially I recommend reading this one, it provides quite revealing stuff, as well as some other side of story about 1997 crisis.

Notice that the article on Stickman’s blog (“Thais, Farang, and The Land“) has been removed already quite a while, so, the link is to its archived version. But is quite revealing I think. In this article the author starts to explain main thing from the third paragraph, with words:

“As you may have or have not noticed, I have left out the Chinese from the blame the foreigners list ….”

I think he makes a VERY solid point ins saying :

“They control all private and public propaganda in Thailand. The Chinese are the one group of foreigners who are really responsible for screwing up Thailand …”

I won’t make longer quotes here, although surely it would be worth it. But I suggest to read that all to get SOME idea of what’s actually going on here.

Also a good one is by BP: “Colonized by the Middle Class,” which he based on article “Shuffling Towards Fascism” – where in the comments there is some discussion on fascism.

BTW, I think the SAME thing is gonna happen now, with Korn’s & his buddy Abhisit’s massive project called “Khem Kaeng,” which is not simply a single project, but as super-huge package of MANY mega-projects – which makes all the prelude to ’97 pale in comparison. I bet that Korn & his fellow banksters (and other plunderers, as CP and other magnates) are right NOW causing this country a much higher damage than what has lead to ’97 crisis. Wait and see!

And that, in my opinion, is the MAIN reason of why Abhisit is so stubborn in refusing to call for elections now – because he & Korn along with all the Demo-craps (the most corrupt, cockroach party) are so desperate to drag on few more months until the end of year – to make sure that B400bln have been fully divided among themselves and their allies BEFORE any elections take place. And then – let even TRT/PPP/PT/whoever else of UDD win the elections LOL! Because they will inherit the HUGE load of debt left over by Demo-craps. After all, that’s why they’re Demo-craps, right?

(BD: So easily forgetting the Thaksin order, it’s flabbergasting … Thanks for the Stickman link, excellent read.)

It’s a fascinating question in many ways, how much of his culture should an immigrant give up?

What’s the bet that much of the capital inflows of the last few months was Chinese based? Not necessarily China based but then if you look at capital inflows to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore after the big stimulus you can see that as much as twenty percent of those government monies were in foreign bank accounts within a couple of months of the initial disbursement … I saw a financial report that claimed Hong Kong alone picked up ten percent of it in a few months. Of course Hong Kong has Macao and Singapore is now casinoed up too. Pity about Thailand’s ban but who knows what might change in the future? Where are those Chinese tourists anyway and what are they doing when they visit Thailand? What is likely to increase those flagging tourist numbers from the West?

Of course given the fantastic level of casino capitalism visible in the U.S. stock markets last night we might all be forgiven for assuming that the serious gambling money has moved away from traditional entertainments.

(BD: Indeed some serious completely legal gambling glitch last night! Who knows, the next glitch may push the DOW some 2,000 points upwards!)

AntiPADshist, I think it was Wise Kwai aka Prof. Federico Ferrara who posted last year on China’s unofficial-but-very-real economical colonization of Thailand.

BangkokDan