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The Chinazation of Cambodia

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Or rather, the Sinification of Cambodia, if you want to be pedantic:

http://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20170316/On-the-Cover/The-Chinazation-of-Cambodia

As bridges go, the New Chroy Changvar Bridge, completed in 2015 with a concessional loan from China, is packed with symbolism. The 719-meter bridge, which spans the Tonle Sap River in the capital, was built by the state-owned China Road and Bridge Corp. and runs alongside the Chroy Changvar Bridge, also called the Cambodia-Japan Friendship Bridge, built with Japanese assistance in 1966 and rebuilt with Japanese donations in 1994. Tokyo used to be a major donor to Cambodia, but it now pales in comparison to Beijing. According to Moody's Investors Service, China has since 2012 surpassed all multilateral organizations combined and the European Union in annual aid to the Southeast Asian country.

China's presence in Cambodia's power industry is also growing. The official website of the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia states that Chinese companies provided around 80% of all the power generated in the country in 2016. The local Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which acts at the behest of Beijing, kicked off a two-week exhibit at the Royal University of Phnom Penh on Feb. 16 under the perfunctory title "achievements of electric power construction in Cambodia assisted by Chinese companies." The aim apparently was to show off China's economic muscle.


China is spreading its tentacles everywhere, and meanwhile the US President can't even exercise control over the portals of entry to the United States.
 
Is there some reason why we should be suspicious of this economic behavior? China is wealthy now compared to most of its neighbors and they're just engaging in the same nation building that most powers do.

Cambodia could use the help. :shrug:
 
Let's criticize China for doing things we do and much more often. Just take a look at South America and tell me the US government and corporations don't have their tentacles in virtually everything.
 
Or rather, the Sinification of Cambodia, if you want to be pedantic:

http://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20170316/On-the-Cover/The-Chinazation-of-Cambodia




China is spreading its tentacles everywhere, and meanwhile the US President can't even exercise control over the portals of entry to the United States.

Big deal...China is investing in other countries. Cambodia seems to be benefitting from it - so what?

When they sign an aggression pact or China starts stationing troops there (which they probably never will as China is an inward looking nation militarily...ALWAYS has been - and I mean their historical borders).

Neo con paranoia is a waste of time. America needs to concentrate on fixing it's fiscal and economic policies - because both are a mess - or within a generation or two, America will be a shadow of it's present might.

If China wants to waste it's money building bridges for Cambodia - who gives a ****? Let them build a dozen - what the **** is it to us?
 
The Chinese built a bridge? In Cambodia? How dare they! Launch the nukes!
 
Or rather, the Sinification of Cambodia, if you want to be pedantic:

http://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20170316/On-the-Cover/The-Chinazation-of-Cambodia




China is spreading its tentacles everywhere, and meanwhile the US President can't even exercise control over the portals of entry to the United States.

Are you proposing that the United States fund the infrastructure overhaul going on in Cambodia while having a hard time keeping up with it's own roads and bridges? China's lending has opened up trade in a region that desperately needed it. Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar now have matching economic growth levels with China. Trade between Cambodia and China has doubled since 2012.

Can the United States make the claim that they they would be better off under it's influence? I seriously doubt it.
 
Are you proposing that the United States fund the infrastructure overhaul going on in Cambodia while having a hard time keeping up with it's own roads and bridges? China's lending has opened up trade in a region that desperately needed it. Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar now have matching economic growth levels with China. Trade between Cambodia and China has doubled since 2012.

Can the United States make the claim that they they would be better off under it's influence? I seriously doubt it.

In a way America is paying for the new infastructue in cambodia through our $350-500 billion trtade deficit with china

China is at it core a brutal dictatorship and a threat to our national interests
 
China is only doing what the US did many moons ago .........

With minor differences, I might add. Kennedy supported Pol Pot and that was inexcusable. During the Vietnam War the USA dropped more bomb tonnage on Cambodia that we dropped on Japan during WWII. Now, the USA wants Cambodia to repay us something like $3-500 million that we claim they owe us. We're also not paying for the damages we caused with the bombing.
 
My wife is Cambodian and I lived there and worked at the embassy from 2005-2008. My wife and I also have a non-profit organization there now that helps the elderly in the provinces receive medical care and food. I obviously have a special place in my heart for that country and its people.

Even when I lived there a decade ago China's influence was apparent everywhere. Much of what was accomplished there technologically to start bringing them into the 21st century, such as building cell phone networks, was done by the Chinese. Their first "skyscraper" was being built when I was there, funded by the Chinese. And virtually any large construction project you saw under way or significant road repairs being done was Chinese funded.

America definitely had a presence, building schools and having our military provide medical services to remote areas of the country. But it paled in comparison to the larger scale infrastructure improvements and job creation that China was doing and still is.

As the US reduces its foreign assistance projects expect China to step up its efforts to win hearts and minds.
 
In a way America is paying for the new infastructue in cambodia through our $350-500 billion trtade deficit with china

China is at it core a brutal dictatorship and a threat to our national interests

WHere do you get this $350-500 range? From a Trump rally? Figures.

The highest it has EVER been is $367. Last year it was $347 million.

Try doing some homework and less guessing and you will not sound so ignorant, Trumpbot.

And try to stop taking the word of your pathetic messiah, President Small Hands. That loser just blurts out whatever he reads that sounds good. What a doofus.

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
 
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WHere do you get this $350-500 range? From a Trump rally? Figures.

The highest it has EVER been is $367. Last year it was $347 million.

Try doing some homework and less guessing and you will not sound so ignorant, Trumpbot.

And try to stop taking the word of your pathetic messiah, President Small Hands. That loser just blurts out whatever he reads that sounds good. What a doofus.

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

No need to be insulting

$350 billion is a good estimate off the top of my head.

And if you notice is getting higher over time so $500 billion is not unthinkable for the future

My point is that $350 US dollars buys a lot of infastructure in Cambodia, Africa and Latin America.

Making the Chinese look good and America look like chumps for such bad trade policy
 
The Chinese built a bridge? In Cambodia? How dare they! Launch the nukes!
That is because they could not build a tower, just a bridge. I also think that they should dig a trench around it and fill it with gasoline. No wait...
 
China is spreading its tentacles everywhere, and meanwhile the US President can't even exercise control over the portals of entry to the United States.

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How quaint.
 
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