US-Asean relations: facts and figures
Financial Times | 15 February 2016
AP
President Barack Obama’s meeting with 10 Southeast Asian leaders this week is being touted as a big sign of the so-called US pivot to Asia.
Many of the headlines are about collective clout: the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations is a bloc of more than half of billion people,
with a combined economy a little larger than India’s. But the Asean
states are also a diverse group — not least in their attitudes to the
regional superpower, China.
Cambodia
Hun Sen, Cambodia’s prime minister of more than 30 years, is an autocrat — but the fact he holds elections and has a close relationship with Beijing have helped maintain relations with Washington.
Fact: The US says it gave more than $77.6m in foreign assistance in
2014, a “significant” contribution to Cambodia’s aid-dependent budget.
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