Thailand and China discuss investment and action against online scams
Thai and Chinese finance ministers discuss investment, future industries and efforts to track and block cross-border scam networks’ financial flows.
- Thailand's and China's finance ministers met to discuss strengthening economic cooperation, focusing on attracting high-quality Chinese investment.
- The discussions targeted promoting investment in future industries such as AI, robotics, electric vehicles (EVs), and the green economy to create jobs and transfer technology.
- A key point of emphasis was strengthening cooperation to combat online crime, specifically by tracing and blocking financial flows from cross-border scam networks.
Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas held bilateral talks with Lan Fo’an, finance minister of the People’s Republic of China, to strengthen economic and financial cooperation under the two countries’ Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership.
The discussions focused on promoting high-quality Chinese investment in Thailand that can create jobs, develop domestic supply chains and transfer technology.
The two sides were also ready to expand cooperation in future industries, including artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, semiconductors, smart agriculture and electric vehicles (EVs), alongside workforce skills development and knowledge exchange.
They also emphasised strengthening cooperation against online crime, particularly tracing and blocking financial flows linked to cross-border scam networks.
Both sides exchanged views on challenges facing the global economy, including geoeconomic fragmentation, changes in AI, the energy transition and ageing societies.
They stressed expanding cooperation on the green economy and investment in renewable energy to turn these challenges into opportunities for economic growth.
Lan also invited Ekniti to attend the 33rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Finance Ministers’ Meeting in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China to further regional economic and financial cooperation.
