Cambodia-US relations under future Biden administration questioned

[geovalin]

Despite the government’s commitment to taking the bilateral relationship between Cambodia and the United States President-elect Joe Biden’s administration to a “greater height”, academics remain skeptical over both countries’ patience and compromise. Prime Minister Hun Sen last week broke his silence after he sent a letter to Biden, congratulating him for winning the “historic election” as the 46th President of the US. He said that the government is “fully committed” to working with the new US administration to strengthen the relationship between the two countries.

 

Cambodia-US relations began to deteriorate in the lead up to the last national election as the former opposition CNRP was dissolved by the Supreme Court in November 2017 and its leader Kem Sokha was arrested and accused of colluding with the US to overthrow the government. The US government then imposed visa restrictions on senior Cambodian government officials accused of violating human rights and undermining democracy in the Kingdom.

 

The spokesman for the US Embassy said via an email yesterday that it is “too early” to comment on the incoming US administration. Kin Phea, director-general of the Royal Academy of Cambodia’s International Relations Institute, said yesterday that overall he does not expect any further improvement in the relationship between the two countries.

 

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[Sydebolle]

Not that it would be of relevance, what the United States of War Mongering thinks or does but it remains a fact, that Cambodia got systematically destroyed by Nixon and Kissinger and nobody every rose any point anywhere on this planet. 

Hun Sen, on the other side is a musical chair expert; he switched sides from the Khmer Rouge, where he had made it to Battalion Commander, to the "liberating Vietnamese" and has been bleeding Cambodia's coffers dry for the last 35 years (since 1985!). He never went to town with the huge bill of destruction costs when the US tried without success to close the Ho Chi Minh trail which also went through Eastern Cambodia.