Xia Xia for kowtowing us: Beijing to Phnom Penh

Chinese ambassador thanks to Cambodian government

19 April 2008
By Sary Roat
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

The Chinese ambassador in Cambodia thanked the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) for supporting China regarding the Olympic problems China is currently facing.

At a press conference, Ms. Zhang Jin Feng, the Chinese ambassador to Cambodia, said that King Sihamoni will participate in the opening Olympic ceremony which will be held in August 2008 in Beijing, China.

She said that she also took the opportunity to express her profound pride for the support the RGC provided to China, and its effort to prevent any NGO from using Cambodia as a platform to oppose the holding of the 2008 Olympics in China.

In January, the RGC (under Hun Sen’s express order) prevented US actress Mia Farrow and the Cambodian civil society, which supported the “Dream for Darfur” event, from presenting flowers at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh, in order to oppose Beijing’s support to the Sudanese government which is involved in gross human violations in Darfur, Sudan.

Cambodia backs Chinese repression in Tibet

Cambodia backs China over Tibet unrest

Monday, March 24, 2008
Radio Australia (ABC)

Cambodia says the unrest in Tibet was elaborately plotted and organised by a small group of people with ulterior motives.

China's official Xinhua news agency has quoted a secretary of state in Cambodia's ministry of foreign affairs saying the distorted news coverage by the western media was aimed at disturbing the ongoing sessions of the National People's Congress, and to undermine the Bejing Olympic Games.

Cambodia's Long Visalo is also quoted as saying the Lhasa incident was not a peaceful demonstration but a serious riot.

Like Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh have thrown their support behind China, saying that the Tibet issue is purely China's internal matter.