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China recently donated 50,000 field uniforms (including hats and boots) to Cambodia. Last year, China donated 257 military trucks, and has also supplied weapons. The infantry weapons tend to be older models. That's because China is introducing a new and improved model of their QBZ-95 assault rifles (also called the Type 95) to their own troops. The QBZ-95 is a distinctive bullpup design (the magazine is behind the trigger) that China has been issuing to its troops for over a decade now. That means China has plenty of surplus Type 81 (improved AK-47) rifles (which the QBZ-95 replaced) to either put into storage, or distribute to allies. Cambodia has bought some Type 95s, for elite units. But most everyone else has the second hand Type 81. AK-47s have been widely used Burma nearly half a century.
Cambodia really needs this Chinese military aid right now. That's because Cambodia is currently at war (sort of) with neighboring Thailand. This dispute is over a badly marked border. The basic problem is that the current 730 kilometer long border with Thailand was defined in 1907 by the placement of only 73 border markers. This has left the exact location of the border open to interpretation. Occasionally these interpretations clash, as is happening now. Neither side wants a full scale war, even though Thailand has a larger and better equipped military. In the last few years, Cambodia doubled its annual military budget to $500 million. But Thailand spends more than six times that, and has done so for decades. Thailand has 300,000 troops, Cambodia only 100,000.
Currently, each side has deployed only a few thousand troops to the disputed area. The fighting has consisted of infantry skirmishes. Anything more serious would see the Cambodians at a big disadvantage. But now, some Cambodian troops are showing up wearing Chinese combat uniforms, carrying well-used Chinese weapons. That's got to have some impact on Thai morale, if nothing else.
24 comments:
It's not rusty AKs and sandals anymore. China are closer and closer to Cambodia now as a friend. It's like looking out for a smaller brother.
It's time to wash your past mistake, and help out Khmer people to destroy Vietnam.
We are 1000% support your army, navy, air force.
time to kick the vietnamese intruders
it's time to kill
Ye, we will lick Chairman Mao's ball, let us be your slave, fuck my wife and daughter, just give me weapons and money, fuck my life to be Scambodian
11"06pm! your chairman mao was death long ago no ball left for you to suck!
Cambodian troops mixed with 75%
North Vietnamese troops.
Take Khmer Empier Lands back, we need Dai-Viet to team up with us and wipe out Siam of the map...
11:37 but your wife love to suck dead body's balls, you have no balls, hahaha
why don't american , british, french gov't donate the military uniform to camobdia too so we can look very american, very british and very french, too, you know! god bless cambodia.
Right now China DOES NOT NEED THAILAND LIKE THE PAST! Thailand is acting like they are the center of the world (not really)! China and Cambodia are like brothers! It's time for Cambodian army to join China and fuck the VIET WHORES UP!!!
12:22 AM
Are you sure, that the Cambodian Army mixed up to 75 % of North Vietnamese.
12:34 AM
You have to learn, that the western countries are looking first on the profit from what they invest.
Please! The western ntions don't give a RAT AZZ ABOUT ANYBODY! They care about their own country first! Vietnam needs to get off U.S. dick and stop sucking it and fight their own battle you Whorenams!
My balls are itchy, some Khmer wanna lick me??
2:55AM ask your MOM, to do it for your motherfuckers is you realy itchy Fagget, bastard.
I wanted to see China, trop these nuclare bombs on the Viet animals heads. C'mon China, let teach this small Viet animals a very good lesson so they won't talks trashes no more.
HOW THE FUCK DOES VIETNAM CLAIM PARACEL AND SPRATLY ISLANDS WHEN IT'S A MILLION MILES AWAY FROM THEM?? LMAO! STUPID VIET DOGS WANT TO CLAIM EVERYTHING THEIRS! FUCKEN DOGS! CHINA SHOULD TAKE ALL OF IT BECAUSE IT CALLED SOUTH CHINA SEA! DUHH!
Anyone know where to fuck child in Phnom Penh? I have pretty much money to pay for a virgin
Interesting piece.
I think the boundary line in the area near the main place of armed clahes as defined by the 1907 French map is precise and not open to interpretation. The writer should have done due research to avoid misleading public opinion.
If it were just a matter of too few markers the Thais would not have insisted upon the watershed line or argued before the ICJ in 1962 that their local authorities were in administrative control of the area in question in ignorance of the details of the map for that area, and Cambodia would not have resorted to the court as a legal option then and now in the first place.
See the ICJ website.
China bears a measure of historical
responsibility for what happened in the seventies in Cambodia. However, it was by no means a direct or conscious Chinese policy to eliminate the Khmer people. That maybe just Vietnamese propaganda.
The Chinese leadership today is not quite in the same mould as their seventies predecessors. In deed, starting with Deng Xao Ping, many of post seventies leaders had been dissidents in Chinese politics.
It is in Cambodia's long term national interest (and mutually China's also to a strategic extent) to lean more towards Beijing and less to Hanoi. Time for patriotic elements within CPP to work towards this goal of ridding Cambodia of Vietnamese yoke.
Vietnam should be Cambodia's neighbour, not exploiter or master.
Kouprey
It's bad of you people to talk about China to overtake Vietnam. If you guys do not want Vietnam to take over Cambodia, stop wishing China to take over Vietnam.
3:48AM,
Yes, your mother. Try her you' ll like it.
5:48am,
Burma, Lao and Cambodia will joint hand with China and and push Viet into the sea.
Just remember this fucking all of ah Yuon ancestors they came from China. So China they can take it back because it's their land, I hopes China will give this idiots insects Yuon a lesson so they won't bucks to much.
5:48 AM
China will take Vietnam and it is not from these people who wish for Vietnam to be destroyed it is from the Communist leaders in Hanoi who are so corrupted and who agreed to let Chinese move over. Read many articles about Chinese companies in Vietnam.
you know, like water, if you try to block its natural flow, it will find a weak point to break the flow again, etc... the same concept here with cambodia, really! you denied cambodia and burma, they will find a way to compensate for that loss somehow, somewhere, really! god bless cambodia and burma.
why are we complaining here? it's just life in cambodia and burma, you know! they wait for no one, really!
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