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A twin-pronged commercial and diplomatic strategy is boosting China's influence in Southeast Asia and breathing life into the economies of Cambodia, Laos and Burma
Chinese diplomats toasted another success for their decade-long campaign in Southeast Asia on July 27 after Cambodian legislators approved a state guarantee promising handsome profits for a US$280 million hydro-power project by Sino-Hydropower.
That such an assurance was forthcoming reflects China's influence in Cambodia, all the more remarkable given that Beijing supported the government of King Norodom Sihanouk in the 1960s, the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and 1980s, and now their ...
That such an assurance was forthcoming reflects China's influence in Cambodia, all the more remarkable given that Beijing supported the government of King Norodom Sihanouk in the 1960s, the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and 1980s, and now their ...
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