Shunned Politics in Thought Clouds

Hey, we are building a community over there in the disputed reefs where the chinese navy bully us.

Hey, we are not turning away refugees from another SEA country (just when the rest of our neighbors are responding to them differently).

Hey, we can transplant the refugees in the...

Not funny. Might work. Think win-win. Better them than us.

Benevolent macchiavelli.

[Migrants are towed out to sea by a Thai naval vessel near the island of Koh Lipe because the Thai government, along with others in the region, refuses to let them land. Photograph: Aubrey Belford/Reuters]