Trade-and-Tariff War: Vietnam 1, Thailand 0

Allo ever'one on this first eve of the first Sunday of July.
All that is below is craftily curated from our Bulldog edition, already on sale.

THAILAND WEATHER
It's the rainy season in Bangkok. Drivers hardest hit.

THAILAND POLITICS
Deadline New Year's Eve
Opposition People's Party steps up the pressure on government without a head.

(Above: Unified People's Party, centred by leader Natthaphong Ruengpanyawuit.)
By Chairith Yonpiam, deputy news editor, Bangkok Post
Appoint a prime minister and dissolve the House before December 31.
Or else!

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. (J Edgar Hoover)

Stop it! We completed talks with Cambodia on those artefacts in 2015.
-- Paetongtarn "Ung Ing" Shinawatra, minister of culture, shatters fake news.

U.S. plans to halt Chinese computer chip laundry through Thailand.
Thailand and Malaysia are about to be blacklistedby America for smuggling AI chips.
The U.S. Commerce Department says China is using sleeper agents in both countries to illegally obtain chips of America-Taiwanese Nvidia.
PHOTO: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shows off the firm's newest chips.

A comfortable seat, perhaps a sofa or (speaking Canuck language) a chesterfield.
Even the old rocking chair. A kitten as warm companion, or puppy; Fishwrap'll not judge you.
And articles worthy of consideration.

Bamboo diplomacy works after all
Vietnam: Trump's Next Trade Prize, Strategic Asia Bet
By Khanh Vu Duc of Ottawa, lawyer and essayist.

Vietnam's breakthrough trade-and-tariff deal could also signal a deeper realignment in Indo-Pacific security.
The heavily pro-American CPV chairman To Lam wne to Washington to ensure the economic miracle.

ADDENDUM
Vietnam Communist Party General Secretary To Lam. Vietnam's most powerful political figure, spoke with Trump via telephone to discuss bilateral relations and negotiations on reciprocal tariffs.
And partnership.

DIRECTLY RELATED

U.S. negotiator to Pichai Chunhavachira, minister of finance:Try again this week.

No Deal: Bangkok Post (English)
Pichai leads failed Thai 'negotiators' back to Bangkok.
No final agreement but encouraging progress, he claims.
Can Thailand be one of the few who get a real deal?

RELATED ASEAN
In 'bold' trade-and-tariff talks, Indonesia vows major cuts in tariffs on U.S. imports.

Three reasons why China can't afford to invade Taiwan (Longread)
In Short: The stakes make military action an economic gamble Beijing can’t take.

RELATED
War with China over Taiwan? Don't expect US allies to join.
War with China over Taiwan won't end well for anyone.

Wrinklies remember the F5! PHOTO
Taiwan retires its last F5 fighter jets with one spectacular flyover.

PHOTO: Fly-past by three RF-5E Tigereye and two F-5F Tiger II jets.
The Air Force held a decommissioning ceremony for the last squadron of F-5 aircraft at Hualien Air Base.
It marked the retirement of the series from service.

The U.S. government is breeding billions of flesh-eating flies, zaps them with radiation, and dump them on Mexico. (CBS)
Take that, you smug-druggling bastiches! Well, actually, this has been going on for years in Panama.

Also YouTube, so it must be true.
How Nuclear Flies Protect You from Flesh-Eating Flies.

The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill will make it harder for solar and wind renewable energy projects to get access to government funds: They will need to actually build something. (Tech Crunch)
Inconceivable.

The Radeon 9070 GRE - a cut-down version with 12GB of RAM and 48 graphics cores instead of the 16GB and 64 cores on the 9070 XT - will be getting a release in Taiwan. (WCCFTech)
No official prices so far outside of Taiwan and West Taiwan.

The Stop Killing Games initiative has passed a million signatures in Europe thanks in no small part to efforts to kill the Stop Killing Games initiative. (Notebook Check)
It wasn't us. We were working all that day, and we've got witnesses.

Samsung is delaying the construction of its new $44 billion chip factory in Texas because it has no customers. (Tom's Hardware)
Better to figure that out before spending the $44 billion, yes.

America's Newspaper of Record

Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.

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