How Charoen Pokphand turned main conduit for Chinese investment in Thailand

How Charoen Pokphand turned main conduit for Chinese investment in Thailand

Dhanin Chearavanont Photographer: Taylor Weidman/Bloomberg

Chia Ek Chor fled his typhoon-ravaged village in southern China and started a new life in Thailand selling vegetable seeds with his brother in 1921. Almost a century later, with the largest family fortune in the country, his descendants are becoming Chinese President Xi Jinping’s key economic allies.

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