“Thailand is now open and ready for business. There’s no better time to invest in Thailand than now,” he declared.
While his nine trips around the world to meet leaders, court companies and investments have been applauded, and earned him the moniker “salesman prime minister” from technocrats and business groups, analysts question whether the frenetic activity and push to build mega infrastructure projects will yield real results without much-needed economic reforms.
Next week Srettha will be travelling again, seeking to lock down investment pledges from Big Tech in the US, when he visits San Francisco as part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
In December he will be in Japan, coaxing the country’s top foreign investor to deepen investment in…
