[Levin]

Why go US to fund the project? Wouldn't the best country to approach for funding and constructing is China or Japan? So I guess the Thais must have approached them already but was declined due to feasibility issues.  In other words the bridge won't work. I think if the Thais offer to cut a canal across the Kra, China would have taken it.    

They did present the plan to investors in China and then Saudi Arabia earlier. US investors are the 3rd group they are presenting to.