Thais have an interest in this zone. Its original purpose was to create an industrial export zone relatively close to Bangkok that would by-pass the clogged Singapore Straits and deploy cheap and readily available Myanmar labour. It would also create an incentive for Chinese to build a trade corridor to Indian Ocean from southern China through Thailand much the same way the Chinese have been trying to do from Yunnan to Arakan for close to 2 decades but with much difficulty. However, Thais now have a competing project in the Southern Economic Corridor which began after Thai frustration with the failure of Dawei port project.
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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 47d
Thais have an interest in this zone. Its original purpose was to create an industrial export zone relatively close to Bangkok that would by-pass the clogged Singapore Straits and deploy cheap and readily available Myanmar labour. It would also create an incentive for Chinese to build a trade corridor to Indian Ocean from southern China through Thailand much the same way the Chinese have been trying to do from Yunnan to Arakan for close to 2 decades but with much difficulty. However, Thais now have a competing project in the Southern Economic Corridor which began after Thai frustration with the failure of Dawei port project.