We:re being scoped out!

[taabarang]

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Hint; It ain't just the coast being eyeballed.

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Hint; It ain't just the coast being eyeballed.

“Five years ago, there were only about five flights per week connecting China and Cambodia, but now there are about 88 flights per week."

Wow!!!

[StroppyChops]

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Hint; It ain't just the coast being eyeballed.

“Five years ago, there were only about five flights per week connecting China and Cambodia, but now there are about 88 flights per week."

Wow!!!

I had just copied that exact quote to paste here - that's a startling statistic. Now, how many of those travelers don't have a license or driving experience, but immediately get behind the wheel of a powerful SUV?

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^^ That's a rather strange take on the stats.

[StroppyChops]

^^ That's a rather strange take on the stats.

In what way?

[phuketrichard]

^^ That's a rather strange take on the stats.

have to agree, tourists dont usually rent SUV's
I'd say all those Chinese arrested for driving without licenses, having accidents were living/possible working as well in the country

NO, I dont have anything to back up my statement

[StroppyChops]

^^ That's a rather strange take on the stats.

have to agree, tourists dont usually rent SUV's
I'd say all those Chinese arrested for driving without licenses, having accidents were living/possible working as well in the country

NO, I dont have anything to back up my statement

Ah, okay! I see it now.

[xxxxxxx]

With investment comes more economic and political power. The West has played this game for ages, with some successes and some horrendous failures. Everything is good while your man is in charge.

But the current regime won't last forever. Locals may eventually (yet again) get fed-up with foreign influence and being squeezed out/priced out of economic opportunity in their own country. Resentment would be keenly focused toward the Chinese instead of the Vietnamese. When that fervor reaches it's boiling point, can violence be far behind?

The difference this time is that China is so much more active on the world stage and militarily confident. They won't stand by and allow Chinese citizens to lose their investments, properties or their lives to a revolution, as they did in 1975. The Chinese government has avoided foreign military interventions up to now, aside from relatively limited border conflicts/incursions with Vietnam and India. As the South China Sea conflicts escalate, it's clear their military policies are adapting to their new economic might.

Will the Chinese fall into the same foreign policy blunders that the US has so many times, i.e. arming your paid-off political stooges in a propped-up regime to violently suppress the local population as they try to take back their country? Or will the Chinese investment in Cambodia eventually be the tide that raises all boats, and creates a growing local middle class? Let's hope it's the latter. Sometimes it's good to be a vassal state....for a while.

[frank lee bent]

the west failed to take up the opportunities for ongoing infrastructure investment.
how many rice mills are NOT Chinese owned?

as some apparatchik observed a few weeks ago- they gave us 15 years to invest, and all they got was backpackers and marijuana.

the USA cannot even maintain their own crumbling infrastructure ( viz; water in Flint Michigan ) much less create a belt-road system.
lets face it, we pissed away our natural advantage over decades.

many expats; though not all,chose Cambodia as a place where it was easy to exploit the locals with a neo colonial agenda.

now it is the turn of the PRC who will be far more ruthless and rapacious than the worst of the westerners.

[newkidontheblock]

With firm control of the media the PRC will be known as the shining white knights that saved the KOW. Just give it a few years for Cambodia to be a PRC colony. CCTV and Freshnews will be one giving the correct voice of the people.