Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Hun Sen tells Cambodians not to fear China [... just beware of the Siems and Yuons first]

PM: Cambodians not to fear economically strong China

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia should view China's economic prosperity as an opportunity but not a threat, national media Wednesday quoted Prime Minister Hun Sen as telling the two-day Fourth Asia Economic Forum here Tuesday.

"Don't wish that China should be poor. We should wish that China should be rich. It isn't a threat. It will help us ... (China's ) neighbor Cambodia and ASEAN will receive benefits," English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodia Daily quoted him the president as saying.

In addition, the premier said that China could help deal with the current global financial crisis because China still has a large amount of foreign-exchange reserves and potential of economic growth".

According to the Chinese Embassy, the bilateral trade volume between China and Cambodia increased from 12.95 million U.S. dollars in 1992 to 933 million U.S. dollars in 2007.

China is currently the second largest investing country and the fourth largest donor country for Cambodia.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've never agreed with you before Hun Sen but this time I agree with you. China has never wanted to swallow khmer land. Only thai and vietnamese, Cambodian two neighbors, are always want to take our land. So beware of these two nations.

Anonymous said...

Cambodians are so pathetics.
They fear of everyone, China, Vietnam, Russia, Thailand, etc...
When will they learn to live peacefully with others?

Anonymous said...

11:58am
You can't handle the true. Khmer is learning your bad deed to khmer's land and people.

Anonymous said...

This is a time for Hun Sen to show his nationalist stance.