Listening attentively for 52 minutes to Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas' diagnosis of Thailand's deep economic malaise, one could easily have suffered a heart seizure. Fortunately, he used the analogy of a patient with cancer who must determine what treatments are required to cure the disease in both the short and long term.
"Today we must accept that we have cancer. Painkillers relieve the symptoms, vitamins can keep us going, but chemotherapy -- are we going to wait five months, six months, or another year before making the energy transition?" he opined.
