South China Morning Post on 14/10 comments about his implicit message Xi Jinping to the small countries in the region, as shown by the visit Cambodia.
In the 1970s Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai welcomed the Prince Norodom Sihanouk as the country while living in the context of exile. The move of Zhongnanhai aims "set of small countries against imperialism". China's world view has changed a lot since then, but Beijing's strategy to use Cambodia to express his bigger picture remained unchanged. When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Phnom Penh on Thursday, he had a clear message not only to Cambodia's poor countries, but also other Asian countries: Neighbors with China may seek prosperity from the role, the growing strength in the region of Beijing.
China is placing hope on the absolute support to Cambodia to build closer ties with ASEAN. Beijing hopes this can counterbalance US influence in the region. Also visit other countries also see the possibility of Beijing to help their economic growth, infrastructure development by the massive financial package. Victor Gao, a businessman doing business in China in the 1980s, told a forum in Beijing this week: China can use the project in Cambodia as an example for other countries. If Cambodia can benefit from initiatives A belt, a path of China's investment strategy Xi through this program also helps many other poor countries. Despite close ties, China and Cambodia also has a complex phase resentment in the past, led by Mao Zedong strongly supported the genocidal Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. But the handshake of Xi with King Sihanouk's son tried, King Norodom Sihamoni this week is a sign of trust.
This is in sharp contrast with the relationship between the US allies with the Philippines, when he Rodrigo Duterte Barack Obama insulting profusely. While creating economic gravity, the political and military activities of Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea, East China is worrying, strong reaction from Washington and its allies and partners. And so China needs a friend, Beijing is willing to pay for Phnom Penh to get friendship. Zhu Yin, an expert from the Institute of International Relations, commented: In the next two decades, ASEAN will be one of the fastest growing economies in the world, like China in the 1990s.
It's a great investment opportunity that China will not miss. However, while Zhongnanhai was "occupied heart" Royal Cambodian, Chinese investors must also do more. They need to ensure that the benefits from the investments of China to share more for the local public, and does not cause the destruction or destroy the environment. Professor Zha Daojong from Peking University said that to put into orbit small countries China is a long process. These countries do not have an obligation to appreciate the One Ring, a road.
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