Thailand's Deputy PM and Finance Minister proposes positioning Thailand as a regional "connector" across ASEAN to address major cross-border challenges: geopolitics, AI, climate change, and aging demographics. Key initiatives include ASEAN Power Grid for energy security, cross-border payment systems (PromptPay-PayNow), and leveraging Thailand's Silver Economy alongside younger economies. Success requires both public policy frameworks and private-sector leadership to build distributed regional resilience rather than isolated national solutions.