From car parts to condos, faltering Thailand lures Chinese money

From car parts to condos, faltering Thailand lures Chinese money

A clerk counts Chinese yuan and U.S. dollar banknotes at a branch of Bank of China in Taiyuan

Everywhere you look on Thailand’s Amata industrial estate in Rayong you see signs in Chinese. It’s a similar story just along the coast in the tourist resort of Pattaya, where Mandarin is increasingly visible alongside English and Russian.

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