By Sachak
Sralanh Khmer
Translated from Khmer and posted online
The prime minister of the ruling Cambodian People's Party continues to display his dim-wittedness with his political view that runs counter to the global trend and his current policy of placing himself as Beijing's economic pawn. Hun Sen usually says that China gives Cambodia aid without imposing conditions on Cambodia to do this or that, which is different from the Western countries that give aid with orders attached for Cambodia to behave like this or that all the time.
Because of his little schooling and limited knowledge and because the Chinese leaders are smarter, Hun Sen fails to grasp China's ill-will and instead strives hard to trumpet China's generosity by praising that China gives Cambodia aid with no strings attached. However, China in reality has profited considerably from Cambodia since the time the Khmer Rouge Pol Pot was in power when China also gave the Khmer Rouge unconditional aid in order to encourage the black-shirted Angka [Khmer Rouge organization] to massacre Cambodians. Likewise, in the time of Hun Sen, China gives him aid as an encouragement to the Phnom Penh regime to abuse human rights and bully the democrats.
Hun Sen's view is bust because he does not see the condition or payback demanded by his great friends in Beijing for their recent aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars. However, if this is a sham view to cover up the Phnom Penh regime's true image as one of Beijing's slaves, then Hun Sen is now in an impasse or is facing a stone wall.
After Hun Sen had boasted that China did not impose any conditions for its aid to him, an American diplomat in Phnom Penh stated that no country would give aid without conditions. He said that in giving Cambodia aid, the West or the United States also demanded that the Phnom Penh regime respect human rights, uphold democracy, and conduct a reform that would bring Cambodia a genuine rule of law.
Similarly, in its recent aid to Hun Sen worth dozens or hundreds of millions of dollars, China also imposed countless conditions. For instance, China required that many not-very-respectable Chinese investment companies be allowed to do shady businesses in Cambodia in almost every sector, particularly the land-grabbing, logging, and minerals-exploring companies investing in Cambodia's northeast where they have badly devastated Cambodia's natural resources and especially affected the livelihoods of the ethnic minority people. At present, protest has ceaselessly been staged against Chinese companies that have violated the sacredness of the ethnic minority people's ancestral forests in the northeastern region of Cambodia. Even a company exporting garlic from Cambodia to Europe recently discovered that mainland Chinese ships had colluded with corrupt officials in smuggling garlic from China into Cambodia and falsely declaring it to be Cambodian garlic for export to Europe.
Therefore, the assertion by the American diplomat in Cambodia that all aid is conditional is vindicated as China's aid to Cambodia really has conditions attached, which are dirty, dishonest, and fraudulent conditions unlike those of the Western countries.
As conditions for their aid, Western countries required that Cambodia should resolve its social problems so that there is prosperity for Cambodia itself, such as by undergoing administrative reform, reform of the judicial system, and agrarian reform and by upholding human rights, democracy, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law. In imposing these conditions the aid donors do not make any profit from Cambodia like Beijing, which has sucked up Cambodia's rich resources and fed them to China. These conditions are for the good of Cambodia and of the Cambodian people themselves, who would benefit greatly if they responded to these conditions just as the American diplomat in Phnom Penh had asserted that whether they (the conditions) are met or not is all up to Cambodia.
Contrary to the perception and stance of the West, Chinese Embassy officials echoed and hailed Prime Minister Hun Sen's view that the Chinese Government does not interfere in Cambodia's internal affairs, meaning that Cambodia with its right to self-determination intact remains independent (Sic).
It is true that China does not interfere in Cambodia during the Hun Sen regime because China wants to keep this regime's trigger-happy leaders in power to continue swallowing Chinese aid through various corrupt practices while bending over backward to serve as a stepping stone for China's hegemonic expansion in the region.
Therefore, China's refraining from interfering in Cambodia's internal affairs bears the same meaning as China's nurturing its new puppets to serve Beijing's political ambition at this stage where China is renewing effort to consolidate its influence and power in Cambodia and the region. This non-interference also keeps the group of new puppets in this country constantly addicted to the US dollars, or rather the Chinese Yuan, and keeps them perpetually harnessed to serve the foreigners forever.
No one ever thinks that Cambodia's cruel leader would dare to open his mouth to praise Beijing for giving unconditional aid like this, because such a language is apt only for a person without judgment or a politician without a sense of integrity. On this earth, there is no superpower that does not want something back in return for its charity. At least, they throw out a few cents for a small and weak country like Cambodia so that it would do something for them or for the people in this society.
Therefore, PM Hun Sen's fumbling view about China's unconditional aid and the West's conditional aid is certainly a cause for concern. In the past, no one thought that Hun Sen would be so naive. However, after hearing him enunciate such a shallow theory people started seeing that Hun Sen is not a genius after all.
Hun Sen really demonstrated a much below-par theory. But his addiction to Beijing's aid cannot be cured, for this is a character of a leader with countless honorary Ph.D. degrees who never set foot at the doorstep of any law school. He exemplifies an old Khmer saying that you are not going to swim far if you cannot plunge deep.
Therefore, if Hun Sen was well read and well educated like the leaders of neighboring countries, he would see that China does not have any good intention toward us, for it is this unconditional aid from China that has kept the Khmer Rouge trial court from advancing. Therefore, China's paltry aid not only is an exchange for allowing Chinese companies to suck dry Cambodia's great resources but it also lets China to be behind Hun Sen in blocking the Khmer Rouge court from getting off the ground.
Because of his little schooling and limited knowledge and because the Chinese leaders are smarter, Hun Sen fails to grasp China's ill-will and instead strives hard to trumpet China's generosity by praising that China gives Cambodia aid with no strings attached. However, China in reality has profited considerably from Cambodia since the time the Khmer Rouge Pol Pot was in power when China also gave the Khmer Rouge unconditional aid in order to encourage the black-shirted Angka [Khmer Rouge organization] to massacre Cambodians. Likewise, in the time of Hun Sen, China gives him aid as an encouragement to the Phnom Penh regime to abuse human rights and bully the democrats.
Hun Sen's view is bust because he does not see the condition or payback demanded by his great friends in Beijing for their recent aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars. However, if this is a sham view to cover up the Phnom Penh regime's true image as one of Beijing's slaves, then Hun Sen is now in an impasse or is facing a stone wall.
After Hun Sen had boasted that China did not impose any conditions for its aid to him, an American diplomat in Phnom Penh stated that no country would give aid without conditions. He said that in giving Cambodia aid, the West or the United States also demanded that the Phnom Penh regime respect human rights, uphold democracy, and conduct a reform that would bring Cambodia a genuine rule of law.
Similarly, in its recent aid to Hun Sen worth dozens or hundreds of millions of dollars, China also imposed countless conditions. For instance, China required that many not-very-respectable Chinese investment companies be allowed to do shady businesses in Cambodia in almost every sector, particularly the land-grabbing, logging, and minerals-exploring companies investing in Cambodia's northeast where they have badly devastated Cambodia's natural resources and especially affected the livelihoods of the ethnic minority people. At present, protest has ceaselessly been staged against Chinese companies that have violated the sacredness of the ethnic minority people's ancestral forests in the northeastern region of Cambodia. Even a company exporting garlic from Cambodia to Europe recently discovered that mainland Chinese ships had colluded with corrupt officials in smuggling garlic from China into Cambodia and falsely declaring it to be Cambodian garlic for export to Europe.
Therefore, the assertion by the American diplomat in Cambodia that all aid is conditional is vindicated as China's aid to Cambodia really has conditions attached, which are dirty, dishonest, and fraudulent conditions unlike those of the Western countries.
As conditions for their aid, Western countries required that Cambodia should resolve its social problems so that there is prosperity for Cambodia itself, such as by undergoing administrative reform, reform of the judicial system, and agrarian reform and by upholding human rights, democracy, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law. In imposing these conditions the aid donors do not make any profit from Cambodia like Beijing, which has sucked up Cambodia's rich resources and fed them to China. These conditions are for the good of Cambodia and of the Cambodian people themselves, who would benefit greatly if they responded to these conditions just as the American diplomat in Phnom Penh had asserted that whether they (the conditions) are met or not is all up to Cambodia.
Contrary to the perception and stance of the West, Chinese Embassy officials echoed and hailed Prime Minister Hun Sen's view that the Chinese Government does not interfere in Cambodia's internal affairs, meaning that Cambodia with its right to self-determination intact remains independent (Sic).
It is true that China does not interfere in Cambodia during the Hun Sen regime because China wants to keep this regime's trigger-happy leaders in power to continue swallowing Chinese aid through various corrupt practices while bending over backward to serve as a stepping stone for China's hegemonic expansion in the region.
Therefore, China's refraining from interfering in Cambodia's internal affairs bears the same meaning as China's nurturing its new puppets to serve Beijing's political ambition at this stage where China is renewing effort to consolidate its influence and power in Cambodia and the region. This non-interference also keeps the group of new puppets in this country constantly addicted to the US dollars, or rather the Chinese Yuan, and keeps them perpetually harnessed to serve the foreigners forever.
No one ever thinks that Cambodia's cruel leader would dare to open his mouth to praise Beijing for giving unconditional aid like this, because such a language is apt only for a person without judgment or a politician without a sense of integrity. On this earth, there is no superpower that does not want something back in return for its charity. At least, they throw out a few cents for a small and weak country like Cambodia so that it would do something for them or for the people in this society.
Therefore, PM Hun Sen's fumbling view about China's unconditional aid and the West's conditional aid is certainly a cause for concern. In the past, no one thought that Hun Sen would be so naive. However, after hearing him enunciate such a shallow theory people started seeing that Hun Sen is not a genius after all.
Hun Sen really demonstrated a much below-par theory. But his addiction to Beijing's aid cannot be cured, for this is a character of a leader with countless honorary Ph.D. degrees who never set foot at the doorstep of any law school. He exemplifies an old Khmer saying that you are not going to swim far if you cannot plunge deep.
Therefore, if Hun Sen was well read and well educated like the leaders of neighboring countries, he would see that China does not have any good intention toward us, for it is this unconditional aid from China that has kept the Khmer Rouge trial court from advancing. Therefore, China's paltry aid not only is an exchange for allowing Chinese companies to suck dry Cambodia's great resources but it also lets China to be behind Hun Sen in blocking the Khmer Rouge court from getting off the ground.
4 comments:
If this is being printed in Cambodia, my hat is off to these gutsy Cambodians!
Idiot, you are talking about Ah
Khmer-Yuon's "Sralanh Khmer" media
who reported that her majesty
Monique is Yuon.
Hun sen will ask for weapons from the chinese to go to war with youn. It's going to be another vietnam/chinese war all over again. And as a result, ordinary people will die, not the hun sen or chea sim or any of the top official. Be ready to die again, khmer while your leaders are fighting for power.
No, rich people don't want war, because that will risk everythink
they had.
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