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Thailand's false sense of tariff security
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 30/05/2025
» Thailand is in deeper trouble among its peer group in view of United States President Donald Trump's tariff offensive. Yet senior Thai officials appear nonchalant, complacent and smug. They seem to think Thailand will come out of the US tariff war in good shape as the Trump administration will prove unable to go through with its hefty import duties. The domestic political battle between the US executive and judicial branch -- with the Court of International Trade's injunction this week on most of the Trump tariffs -- further adds to the absurd sense of security and false perception of Thailand's importance by Thai officials.
Give America a debt brake fast
Oped, R James Breiding, Published on 01/06/2023
» Since 1960, the United States has raised its debt ceiling 78 times -- soon to be 79, if Congress approves the latest last-minute deal. On a wall in Manhattan, not far from Times Square, a billboard-size display has kept a running tally of the national debt amount.
Solve BTS saga
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/11/2022
» Re: "Time to end BTS drama", (Editorial, Nov 25).
A tale of two cities, as Xi Jinping visits Hong Kong
Oped, Ivan Watson, Published on 01/07/2022
» 'Manhattan meets Hawaii." That's how I described Hong Kong to outsiders when I first moved here 7 years ago, dazzled by glittering skyscrapers ringing lush green mountains next to the sea.
America is fuelling Chinese techno-nationalism
Oped, Keyu Jin, Published on 12/03/2022
» Although the American-born skier Eileen Gu became a darling of the Chinese public during the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China trained many of its sports champions at home, through its juguo (whole nation) sports regime. And now China is applying the juguo approach -- deploying massive resources to achieve a strategic objective or build national prestige -- to attaining world-class technological prowess.
Beat climate change with divestment
Oped, Zeb Larson, Published on 19/02/2022
» Environmental activist and writer Bill McKibben estimates that climate divestment -- the movement to pressure universities, churches, and other institutions to stop investing in, and thus profiting from, carbon-emitting companies -- has removed close to $15 trillion (482 trillion baht) from investments in polluting companies, marking a significant victory for Planet Earth.
Long overdue history review
Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/11/2020
» If the Education Ministry has its way, the subject of Thai history in the Basic Education Core Curriculum will be overhauled, with the revised version available for the 2022 academic year.
Far worse is coming for world with climate change
Oped, Mario Molina & Durwood Zaelke, Published on 23/10/2020
» It is hard to imagine more devastating effects of climate change than the fires that have been raging in California, Oregon, and Washington, or the procession of hurricanes that have approached -- and, at times, ravaged -- the Gulf Coast. There have also been deadly heat waves in India, Pakistan, and Europe, and devastating flooding in Southeast Asia. But there is far worse ahead, with one risk, in particular, so great that it alone threatens humanity itself: the rapid depletion of Arctic sea ice.
No erasing history
Oped, Postbag, Published on 25/06/2020
» The whole world is gripped in an emotional, over-reactive insanity -- the belief that if you erase the past, you will insure a better present, and perhaps a future.
What ails Thailand
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/05/2020
» Sanitsuda Ekachai's May 18 column, "When education supports rape culture", is a brilliant tour-de-force of what ails Thailand -- racism, toxic nationalism and a widespread indifference toward the bad treatment of women.