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Xi Jinping’s Southeast Asian Tour: A Three-Stop Diplomatic Journey
Between April 14 and 18, Chinese leader Xi Jinping embarked on his first overseas tour of the year, visiting three countries in the Southeast Asian subregion — Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia.
Cambodia Doesn’t Owe Washington an Explanation Over China Ties
Associated Press (AP) in a May 8, 2024 article titled, “Chinese warships have been docked in Cambodia for 5 months, but government says it’s not permanent,” attempts to depict the Southeast Asian country of Cambodia as covering up growing Chinese-Cambodian military cooperation…
Facebook* vs. Cambodia: A Lesson in Securing Information Space
A recent row between US-based social media giant Meta* (also known as Facebook*) and Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen, saw the Southeast Asian leader migrate from Facebook* to Telegram, a social media application popular in former Soviet republics and in a growing number of other nations around the globe. Global Voices, a Western foundation-funded media outlet, in an article titled, “Cambodian Prime Minister quits Facebook* after Oversight Board review,” claimed that Facebook* representatives decided to suspend Prime Minister Hun Sen’s account for six months after allegedly “inciting violence”…
