US Assesses Financial Support for Construction of Cambodia Airport
May 16th, 2025
Via , an article on potential U.S. financial support for the construction of a new Cambodian airport: The U.S. government has announced it is assessing whether to help finance a nearly-completed airport near the Cambodian capital, a move that comes amid growing tariff tensions between the two countries, the halting of virtually all Washington’s aid […]
Read more »Vietnam Is Running Out of Sand to Fuel an Economic Boom
May 4th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a look at how a new crop of factories in Vietnam requires roads, and that means sand. To keep up, the country is importing from Cambodia on a massive scale: When President Donald Trump launched his first trade war with Beijing in 2018, driving up the cost of goods from China, companies raced to relocate […]
Read more »Trump’s Tariffs Risk Pushing Cambodia Further into China’s Embrace
April 24th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a report on a massive canal highlights Beijing’s deep investment in Cambodia just as the US is pulling back, leaving the Southeast Asian nation with less room to balance ties: Along the Mekong River just outside Phnom Penh, Men Moeun and his neighbors live on land set aside for a massive China-backed infrastructure […]
Read more »How Does a Nation Charm China? Name a Boulevard After Xi Jinping.
April 18th, 2025
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how China is the biggest foreign patron of Cambodia, where Mr. Xi concluded a tour of Southeast Asia. But the region also needs to curry favor with President Trump. Xi Jinping Boulevard runs a loop around Cambodia’s fast-growing capital, where signs in Chinese are rapidly overtaking […]
Read more »Khmer Fugue: Is Cambodia Slipping out of China’s Orbit?
February 1st, 2025
Via The Economist, a report on how a new generation of leaders could be more receptive to the West: During Donald Trump’s first term as America’s president, Cambodia was a byword in Washington for a Chinese satrapy, or client state. In exchange for at least $1bn in aid each year from 2016 to 2020, American officials […]
Read more »Speeding Up the Economy: The Role of Methamphetamines in the Southeast Asian Boom
October 12th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, an article on how – faced with ruthless economic demands – increasing numbers of Southeast Asian workers are turning to a cheap, addictive drug that enables them to “work without stopping:” Like many teenagers around the world, Ngo started using drugs after being encouraged by his friends. But what separates his experiences […]
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