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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 8-May-2020
8-May-20 World View -- Milk-Tea twitter war links Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines against China

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8-May-20 World View -- Milk-Tea twitter war links Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines against China

Milk-Tea War exposes generational split in Thailand

by John J. Xenakis

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Milk-Tea twitter war links Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines against China
Milk-Tea War exposes generational split in Thailand

Milk-Tea twitter war links Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines against China

Bright's 2017 tweet with picture of #nnevvy, who infuriated China by saying she looked like a Taiwanese girl

Bright's 2017 tweet with picture of #nnevvy, who infuriated China by saying she looked like a Taiwanese girl

There isn't much news lately except for coronavirus news. Potential riots in places like Lebanon or India quickly die down because everyone is afraid of getting sick.

So when this story popped up on my radar, it sounded great. It's about a hilarious twitter war called the "Milk-Tea War" that has special significance for younger generations in Thailand and their bitter attitudes toward China.

I'll try to summarize the twitter war, but you'll need to read through the sources for all the gory details.

Vachirawit Chivaaree (aka Bright) is a Thai actor starring in a gay drama, “2gether: The Series."

The series is very popular with girls in China, but they became infuriated when they found out that Bright has a real-life female girlfriend, Weeraya Sukaram (aka #nnevvy).

Bright retweeted a picture of #nnevvy with a caption that implied Hong Kong was a country. After a threatened boycott of his show, he apologized, which is what everyone does when Chinese Communists get angry.

Then an old 2017 tweet was found with a picture of #nnevvy and Bright's caption "Such a pretty girl," and #nnevy's correction that she was dressed like a Taiwan girl.

Chinese people are forbidden from using Twitter, but they got onto the VPNs and started bombarding Bright and #nnevvy with insults.

Young people in Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan began responding to the insulting Chinese tweets by mocking them. For example, Chinese tweets saying that Thais were too dumb to know history drew a response like, "Do you mean like Tiananmen Square?"

Activists from Hong Kong and Taiwan joined in. This became known as the Milk-Tea Alliance and War because of the drinks common to the three regions.

China's embassy to Thailand entered the fray with a statement quoting an old motto, "China and Thailand are not others, but brothers," and accusing the Thai twitter users of "bias and ignorance."

Activists from Laos and Cambodia joined in, protesting China's Mekong Dam project, which denied water to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Activists from the Philippines also joined in against China.

The above is only a summary. There was an outpouring of nationalist slurs and hatred only, fueled by the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) news media.

Milk-Tea War exposes generational split in Thailand

Thailand's last generational crisis war was the Cambodian "killing fields" war, 1975-79, in which Pol Pot's communist Khmer Rouge government, backed by China, killed 2-3 million people in a massive genocide. Even though the war wasn't on Thai soil, it spilled over into Thailand in the army's fight against communists in Thailand.

Thailand's government has endeavoured to maintain friendly relations with China, but what the Milk-Tea twitter war reveals is that Thailand's younger generations, that grew up after the war, are hostile to both China and their own government. This is not surprising, as Thailand is in a generational Awakening era, and there is a "generation gap" between the generations surviving the war and the generations growing up after the war, as there was in America in the 1970s.

Ever since Xi Jinping came to power in 2011, China has been increasingly nationalistic and belligerent, ignoring international law and committing crimes in the South China Sea and Xinjiang province. Lately, the evidence has been growing that the CCP purposely seeded the Wuhan Coronavirus on 180 countries of the world, so that China wouldn't be the only country fighting the virus. ( "27-Apr-20 World View -- CNBC's Jim Cramer: Hostility to China grows in America")

The action by China's embassy to enter the fray and accuse the Thai users of "bias and ignorance" turned what might have been fun flame war into an international incident. It illustrates that there is a great deal of hatred and hostility between the CCP and young people in Thailand.

As world war with China approaches, China continues to make enemies. China has a few allies, such as Cambodia, Pakistan, Myanmar, and others, but China is surrounded by historic enemies, including Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, India and Russia. Now we can add Thailand to the list of likely CCP enemies.

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