U.S.-led IPEF lacks tangible benefits, more symbolic than effective: Thai expert

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U.S.-led IPEF lacks tangible benefits, more symbolic than effective: Thai expert

STORY: U.S.-led IPEF lacks tangible benefits, more symbolic than effective: Thai expert DATELINE: July 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:42 LOCATION: Bangkok CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: various of ThailandSOUNDBITE(ENGLISH): SURASIT THANADTANG, Director of the Thai-Chinese Strategic Research Center STORYLINE: The U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) is more "symbolic" than it is effective, as it lacks "tangible benefits." Surasit Thanadtang, director of the Thai-Chinese Strategic Research Center under the National Research Council of Thailand, made the remarks in a recent interview with Xinhua. SOUNDBITE (English): SURASIT THANADTANG, Director of the Thai-Chinese Strategic Research Center "It's symbolic. Why I say yes, because if we look at the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, there is nothing change now from the previous, if we talk about economy, we have to look at what really they talk about. The growth of economy? What kind of thing? And the second one is sustainability of the economy. they don't say

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