Funan Techo Canal: Chinese Gambit in Cambodia
Alarm bells for Washington and Vietnam
In the summer of 2023, the Cambodian government announced that construction on a 180-km canal, funded by the state-owned China Bridge and Road Corporation, would commence this year and be completed in 2028, linking the Bassac River in the capital Phnom Penh with the Gulf of Thailand in the coastal town of Kep and enabling a significant amount of Cambodi…
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