By Richard S. Ehrlich BANGKOK, Thailand China's imported electric vehicles (EVs) are heavily denting U.S. and Japanese car sales in Thailand, so Chinese manufacturers are investing more than a billion dollars to assemble their EVs near Bangkok to expand .
'Pacific nations have long felt their infrastructure needs have not been met, so if traditional partners like Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. don’t provide the wharves and roads and airports, then it is hard for them to tell island countries .