Prime Minister Hun Sen has described Cambodia’s relationship with China as being as strong as “steel” after the regional powerhouse that has helped buttress his regime in recent years pledged $90 million more for the country’s military.
Defense Minister Tea Banh has made an appeal for people to reject smear campaigns against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government, saying they could help to foment “color revolution” and plunge Cambodia back into civil war.
The Phnom Penh embassies of the U.S. and China — whose governments have a dubious history of destabilizing Cambodia for their own geopolitical ends and both stoked and prolonged the country’s two-decades-long civil war — have become embroiled in their second Internet flame war over the country this year.
Villagers affected by alleged land-grabbing for the construction of a massive Chinese resort development in Koh Kong province have appealed to the Land Management Ministry to expedite its work to find a solution.
Cambodia has signed more than $11 billion in concessional loans as of the end of 2018 – 41 percent coming from China – the Finance Ministry reported Tuesday.
Families refusing to leave their homes to make way for a Chinese-built expressway from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville will bear the brunt of Cambodia’s Expropriation Law, Prime Minister Hun Sen said at the road’s groundbreaking ceremony last week.
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