If the West truly wants to change Hun Sen’s behavior, it needs to understand how he sees the world.
As US-China tensions grow and temperatures rise in the South China Sea, Southeast Asia will only become more tense, anxious and constrained.
The backwash from Sihanoukville could be felt most of the way up National Road 4, the dilapidated two-lane highway linking Cambodia’s capital to its southern coast.
Pressure from Brussels risks deepening Phnom Penh’s close engagement with China
The possible establishment of a Chinese naval presence in Cambodia is the logical outcome of long-flawed U.S. policies towards Phnom Penh.
Four decades on, China’s 1979 border war is officially ‘forgotten’ in Hanoi.
With elections coming, the junta still fears the specter of Thaksin Shinawatra.
Despite being free from the friction of meaningful opposition, fresh challenges loom for long-ruling Hun Sen
China gives Cambodia’s strongman the option to ignore Western pressure
By most accounts, the past few years have been anni horribiles for human rights and democracy in Southeast Asia.
China-backed authoritarianism is on the rise in Cambodia as the influence of the US and other Western donor countries retreats
With strong Chinese support, Prime Minister Hun Sen has effectively destroyed all opposition to his autocratic rule.