Cambodia a Focus of Sino-Nippon Rivalry

Hun Sen might profit by looking for a different partner

By: Mark S. Cogan

Last week, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking at the opening of a US$85 million amusement park funded by a Chinese company in Kandal Province (and repeated in a barely-noticed tweet), posed a simple question, “I would like to ask that, if China doesn’t build roads and bridges, who will instead?”

But although China is Cambodia’s…