People wonder about your policy toward the retailing industry, your excellency, in particular toward foreign competitors such as Carrefour, the French chain. How can you protect local interests and avoid making foreign investors nervous about restrictions on their activities? "This is a confused perception," his excellency responds swiftly. "We have no objections at all to foreign investment. Everyone has to adapt. The small independent enterprise will have to adapt and the government will probably have to help them do so -- financially, logistically, by buying products wholesale from manufacturers."
Realistic accommodations to immediate problems. They come one after another in a conversation with the prime minister.
Thaksinomics may undergo a dozen major modifications before the project is complete -- if such transformations can ever be called finished.
Evidence of confusion? Lapsed confidence? You could probably call it that and get away with it. I think it might more certainly betoken the opposite.
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