World Economic Forum meeting in Davos Sending out of importance Great power leaders turn a blind eye to attending. It became a forum for Western capitalists to discuss and set a world agenda for their own benefit. Attacked by citizens-NGOs for saying things like “Top Bitkub” joined in on crypto transparency. But the company itself did not submit financial statements for the year 2011.
In the program “Talk about everything with Sonthi” on Friday, January 27, 2023, Mr. Sonthi Limthongkul, founder of the newspaper Manager Mentioned the annual meeting of World Economic Forum (World Economic Forum) or the 53rd Davos Conference in Davos. Switzerland between 16-20 January 2023, which appears that the leaders of major countries in the world have only Mr. Olaf Scholz, Prime Minister of Germany, attending the event alone. While G7 leaders France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy and Canada were not interested in traveling to the meeting. Unlike previous meetings, for example, in 2018, 6 out of 7 economic leaders were present.
However, host host Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Union (EU) Commission, continues to move ahead with the 53rd WEF 2023 under the theme of “Cooperation in a Different World. is a risk (Cooperation in a Fragmented World)” and the second theme is the way the world will go into the future. There are meetings to discuss issues that are affecting the whole world, such as high cost of living inflation. energy crisis War between Russia and Ukraine food security issues and weather problems Including the problem of transferring investment from Europe to America and China. Energy shortages depend on Russia and rare mineral raw materials. 98% depend on China
On Monday, January 16, 2023, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgiava posted: “The growing international divide is putting the global economy at risk by allowing ‘Everyone is poorer and less secure’, which, in the view of the IMF director, encourages stronger global trade. It will help fragile countries deal with their debts. and increase action to better cope with climate change.
While Bloomberg News reports that this year. Not a single billionaire or businessman from both Russia and China attended the Davos meeting. It is expected that it arises from the crux of the conflict between Russia. with western leaders In the case of the Ukrainian war
Thailand This year, Mr. Anutin Charnvirakul, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Health, and Mr. Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, Minister of Finance, represented the Davos meeting. instead of the Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha, who chose to go to Ratchaburi
Mr. Anutin attended the meeting on January 17-18 on the topic of Health Systems Transformation. The meeting discussed global public-private partnerships on a sustainable healthcare system. Including The Pulling Power of ASEAN, about the role of ASEAN in the midst of intense geopolitical competition and its role in contributing to global stability and prosperity as well as regional cooperation.
In such work Mr. Anutin as a representative of Thailand He said at one point that ASEAN member states must agree that we are all powerful when we are together. in terms of geography ASEAN is an important strategic point that connects the east and west worlds together. Thirty years ago, former Thai Prime Minister Gen. We should reapply this philosophy in the context of today’s world. As for ASEAN, we do not have wars among member nations. But we have commercial competition.
“ASEAN will be very strong. If Member States turn competition into strong cooperation when that happens ASEAN will stand firm and become an indispensable part of every economic region in the world.”
The Deputy Prime Minister also discussed with leaders from other countries on How to Restart Global Cooperation, which will focus on global cooperation in the next phase to address global challenges in key areas. whether global warming weakening economy food and energy crises Including special meetings with representatives of countries and executives of global business organizations
However, what has been talked about And it is worth noting that many participants are This year’s Davos Conference is dull. Lack of influential leaders in the global economy attended the meeting. Reflecting the deterioration of the World Economics Forum that signals the end of the era out of importance Although there were 2,658 participants from 130 countries around the world. But it was a small group of people talking.
while there is scandalous news More famous than the content and theme of the conference is A large number of attendees ordered prostitutes for sex. for example News from the New York Post last week, January 18, 2023, headlined: Prostitutes charge up to $2,500 a night for Davos attendees as demand for sexually responsive workers soars.
Meeting at Davos Began organizing since 1971 (1971), in fact, is Meeting to set the global agenda by those in power and capitalists of the Western world So that people in other regions of the world follow the agenda according to the policy or according to the Agenda that has been set out each year.
But many years later The World Economic Forum met its decline. because the world has started to change poles From a world that used to be dominated by the west especially the United States. It became a multi-polar world or Multi-Polar where many countries turned to join hands to screen the power of the Western world. For example, the BRICS group that provides fairness to trading partners occurs. with leaders such as President Xi Jinping of China, President Vladimir Russia’s Putin is the leader.
Meanwhile, on January 16, 2023, the same day the Davos conference began, the non-profit organization Oxfam The “Survival of the Richest” report was released, which urged the wealthy to pay more in taxes, and Oxfam representatives rallied in Davos to demand that governments collect taxes from the wealthy. % of the country at the rate of 60% of income and increase the tax rate for the second-level millionaires as well
The richest 1% of people own nearly two-thirds (or 63%) of new wealth in 2020-2021, according to Oxfam’s report, meaning the world’s richest people have absorbed the wealth. Global wealth has grown in proportion during the pandemic and in the past 10 years, while global poverty has increased for the first time in 25 years, and the world is facing multiple crises from climate change. cost of living widespread famine and an unprecedented decline in human development.
“Initially, the world should aim to halve the wealth and number of billionaires. In the period from now until 2030, both by raising taxes for the top 1% of the wealthy and using policies to subdue other billionaires.” Oxfam says this approach will bring billionaire wealth back to where it was a decade ago, or 2012.
For the history of the World Economic Forum or World Economic Forum, formerly known as the Council of Europe, was established in 1971 (1971) by Professor Klaus Schwab (Klaus Schwab), who graduated with a Ph.D. economics and engineering from the University of Freiburg (Fribourg) and “ETH Zurich” in Switzerland.
In the early days, the “Davos Conference” was created as a meeting of ‘elites or financial business elites’ conspiring to discuss interests. Rather than being a forum for leaders to discuss solutions to global problems, for 52 years WEF has served as a global agenda, reshaping the political, economic and social power structures of governments in the world.
There are many works that take place as treaties and frameworks for international cooperation. For example, in 1988, the Davos Declaration Treaty was signed at the conference. This was a treaty that ended the conflict between Turkey and Greece at the time.
In 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was proposed, a free trade framework between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
In 2000, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Gavi) was formed, an organization that unites the private sector and international organizations. Its members include UNICEF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization. Providing vaccines to the underprivileged and children around the world
In 2020, WEF has announced the Davos Manifesto with its commitment to solving environmental problems. and social problems and discuss more about sustainable development
However, much of the global economic agenda is behind the interests of this massive capital group. This leads to systematic exploitation of political, economic and social opportunities. Protests from NGOs such as Greenpeace, which saw the Davos Conference as a meeting for the already wealthy economic powerhouses to meet for their own benefit. does not have a positive effect on the public It also wastes natural resources. And pollute a lot with leaders and executives taking private jets to meetings and speaking implicitly.
Mr. Sonthi said that at the Davos 2023 conference this year, the global economy, elite leaders More and more interest in digital assets He invited digital and blockchain industry asset riders such as Top Jirayut Sapsrisopha, CEO of Bitkub Capital Group, to attend the meeting.
Mr. Top also spent money to buy public relations media. Advertise yourself and spread the news around that you attended the WEF meeting, published in both offline and online media, such as Thairath, Daily News, Prachachat, blockdit business, despite the fact that the boast claims to be a successful unicorn on the World Economic Forum. Forum presents the vision to drive the new economy Talk in small groups of no more than 5 people only, less than 20 people listening.
It seems that Mr. Top Jirayut will say something like that. He talks about the collapse of FTX or the big cryptocurrency. And let’s talk about transparency, very focused, while Bitkub, blockchain, its own technology There is still a problem of not reporting the financial statements for the year 2021 to the Department of Business Development for 1 year and 6 months despite the group’s Digital Kub coin being issued worth 3,300 million baht, causing many parties to suspect that the Bitkub group provided information. false or not because the financial statements have not yet been approved if really approved Why not file legally? but what they do This kind of transparency can be allowed, but Mr. Top returned to speak coolly at the World Economic Forum that “Technology can change the world to be transparent. I believe that digital assets are the future.”
“Khun Top, you can stop fooling yourself. When will you legally submit financial statements? All in all, today the digital blockchain seen and done all over the world is the biggest scam. Create a future that doesn’t exist. Spin the current of greed to take over the whole world. It is also a tool for illegal business criminals. Whether it’s a call center gang, drugs, online gambling, people’s fraud gang. And this is the setting of the World Agenda, a capitalist economic system that is now showing signs of deterioration, which may be called the last phase of capitalism.” Mr. Sonthi said