Thaksin’s adversaries in Thailand’s entrenched regime were unwilling to accede to his policy innovations and populism. For them, doing so would be tantamount to admitting that most people in this hospitable, well-endowed kingdom had been kept poor by design all along.
根深蒂固的统治当局当然不愿意接受他信的那套政策创新和民粹主义。对他们来说这等于承认在泰国这个王道乐土中的大多数人之所以长期陷于贫困，原来是他人背后操纵的结果。