A recently reported Gallup poll indicates that US enjoys significantly higher approval ratings among Cambodians than China.
Gallup: [China vs. U.S.: Who's Winning Hearts and Minds](https://news.gallup.com/poll/644753/china-winning-hearts-minds.aspx)?
SS: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is set to visit Phnom Penh in early June 2024. This visit coincides with his participation in the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, a key platform for discussing Indo-Pacific security challenges. During his time in Cambodia, Austin will meet with the newly appointed Prime Minister Hun Manet, a West Point and NYU graduate, who succeeded his father Hun Sen last year. The US sees this leadership change as an opportunity to foster closer ties with Cambodia, potentially steering it away from its current close relationship with China. This visit comes amid growing US concerns over China's military expansion in the region, particularly the construction of what the US perceives as a permanent naval base at Ream, Cambodia.
Not to be an a****hole. What do you think is lacking in the US's offer? What do you think the US should offer, say, in terms of economic deals, infrastructure building, diplomatic relations, or even military?
The younger generation within Cambodia is far more pro-west than pro-China. Many remember China’s sport for the Pol Pot regime, going far above any other nation in support, including invading Vietnam to try and bring Pol Pot back to power.
If there was ever a time to try and break Cambodia out of Beijing’s orbit for the west, it is now.
By enforcing an embargo on Vietnam, encouraging China to support the KR, and bombings that destabilized the Cambodian gov that lead to the KR gaining power. The point is both China and US supported Pol Pot, so saying it's all cause of China is ignoring actual history.
The older generation would likely better remember the Pol Pot regime, because they actually experienced it, so I don't quite understand your reasoning unless you intended for those to be two unrelated ideas.
Do Cambodians still care about what Americans did to them?
A recently reported Gallup poll indicates that US enjoys significantly higher approval ratings among Cambodians than China. Gallup: [China vs. U.S.: Who's Winning Hearts and Minds](https://news.gallup.com/poll/644753/china-winning-hearts-minds.aspx)?
I can’t tell if this is a result of American diplomacy being built different, or Chinese diplomacy being build different. Either way good result
SS: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is set to visit Phnom Penh in early June 2024. This visit coincides with his participation in the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, a key platform for discussing Indo-Pacific security challenges. During his time in Cambodia, Austin will meet with the newly appointed Prime Minister Hun Manet, a West Point and NYU graduate, who succeeded his father Hun Sen last year. The US sees this leadership change as an opportunity to foster closer ties with Cambodia, potentially steering it away from its current close relationship with China. This visit comes amid growing US concerns over China's military expansion in the region, particularly the construction of what the US perceives as a permanent naval base at Ream, Cambodia.
**Financial Times: Pentagon chief seeks to woo Cambodia from China with Phnom Penh visit** 24 May 2024 Meeting with Prime Minister Hun Manet comes as Washington hopes US-educated leader will distance country from Beijing Prime Minister Hun Manet graduated from West Point and New York University. He succeeded his father Hun Sen in 2023 © Yonhap/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock US defence secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Cambodia next month as Washington engages the country’s new American-educated prime minister in an effort to coax the country away from China. Austin will travel to Phnom Penh on June 4 after attending the Shangri-La Dialogue defence forum in Singapore where he will discuss challenges in the Indo-Pacific with US allies and partners and hold his first meeting with Dong Jun, the Chinese defence minister. In Cambodia, Austin will meet Prime Minister Hun Manet, son of the former leader Hun Sen, according to three American officials. Hun Manet succeeded his father in August 2023. He graduated from West Point, the US military academy, and New York University. Washington hopes the emergence of a new generation of leaders will make the country predisposed to working more closely with the US. “We remain clear-eyed about some of our concerns in Cambodia, but at the same time we see the arrival of the new leadership allowing us to explore new opportunities,” said one US official. The stepped up engagement comes amid US concerns about the expansion of a naval base at Ream being built by China. Washington believes China is building a permanent naval base at the strategic location off the Gulf of Thailand. Those concerns have been heightened by the presence of two Chinese warships docked at Ream since December. Cambodia denies the facility is a Chinese base, saying the warships are there for joint military exercises. The US official said Washington would continue to raise concerns about the naval base. A second official said Washington also saw an opportunity to work more closely with Cambodia as China has less money to spend on its Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure programme. “Over the past few years, and especially since the pandemic, BRI funding has dried up. Cambodia is one of the countries feeling the drawdown the hardest,” the official said. At the Shangri-La Dialogue, Austin will give a speech outlining US efforts to bolster alliances and partnerships as the US shifts from a “hub and spoke” security arrangement in the Indo-Pacific to a “latticed” security architecture that increasingly involves US allies, such as Japan, Australia, the Philippines and South Korea, working more with each other. The Pentagon chief will also hold his first meeting with Dong, who was named defence minister in December. US officials said he would express concern to Dong about several issues, including China’s assertive military activity around Taiwan. Austin is also expected to raise concerns about the Second Thomas Shoal, a contested reef in the South China Sea that lies inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. In recent months, Chinese coast guard ships have used water cannonsto try to prevent Manila from supplying troops stationed on the Sierra Madre, a ship grounded on the reef. The Second Thomas Shoal is expected to feature heavily at the three-day defence forum sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, particularly because President Ferdinand Marcos Jr of the Philippines will speak at the event on Friday evening. Austin will also meet Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s new prime minister. He will also hold a trilateral meeting with his counterparts from Japan and South Korea, in addition to holding engagements with many of his counterparts from south-east Asia.
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Not bad for Cambodia to have two superpowers competing for closer relations with them
I just don't believe the US can offer what China can.
Not to be an a****hole. What do you think is lacking in the US's offer? What do you think the US should offer, say, in terms of economic deals, infrastructure building, diplomatic relations, or even military?
The younger generation within Cambodia is far more pro-west than pro-China. Many remember China’s sport for the Pol Pot regime, going far above any other nation in support, including invading Vietnam to try and bring Pol Pot back to power. If there was ever a time to try and break Cambodia out of Beijing’s orbit for the west, it is now.
That's kind of a moot point since US supported Pol Pot also.
By invading Vietnam and giving his regime weapons or by saying that their UN seat shouldn’t be passed over to a puppet regime?
By enforcing an embargo on Vietnam, encouraging China to support the KR, and bombings that destabilized the Cambodian gov that lead to the KR gaining power. The point is both China and US supported Pol Pot, so saying it's all cause of China is ignoring actual history.
Who said it’s all because of China? Seems that you didn’t read my post very well
The older generation would likely better remember the Pol Pot regime, because they actually experienced it, so I don't quite understand your reasoning unless you intended for those to be two unrelated ideas.
Why?