Thailand’s Economic Nationalism(02)
Much heavier taxation was levied on the commercial class, represented mainly by the Chinese and partly by European firms. It was followed by stringent regulation to check Chinese immigration and reserved for Thai nationals a number of occupations previously monopolized by Chinese.
There was a deep-rooted conviction on the part of all Thais that the Chinese were responsible for the peasants’ indebtedness, the poor reputation of Thai rice abroad, and the general lack of indigenous commercial talent.
The cry was also raised that they were sucking the life-blood from Thailand ; it was alleged that their annual remittance to China
Thai nationalism represented the economic hold of the Chinese as a political danger to the Thai regime. The government went so far as to close hundreds of Chinese schools, suppress Chinese newspapers, deport thousands of opium addicts and even arrest some of the leaders of the Chinese community.
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