Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Shashank Choshy,

standing in for Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide you with a fresh perspective on

the events that are shaping the world.

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But first...

Thailand is bracing for a large anti-government protest tomorrow. The rally is scheduled

to take place at a university, which was a site of a student massacre decades ago, and comes

after weeks of demonstrations. The best attended was in the middle of August, when more than

10,000 people marched in Bangkok, calling for political change.

We students have no choice, we can only come out. We don't want to grow up and have

our kids ask us, when the country was facing injustice, what were you doing?

The protests started off largely as student movements, different groups of young people.

Miranda Johnson is the economist, southeast Asia correspondent.

And we've seen them spread actually into high schools, and now they seem to be gaining

traction among a larger segment of the population.

What can we expect from tomorrow's protests?

We've got two different versions of what's going to happen tomorrow.

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