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Cambodia
has long been close to China and has previously headed off criticism of
Beijing over its territorial ambitions from fellow states in the
10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations. But Phnom Penh has
also maintained relations with the US as part of a strategy of multiple
alliances favoured by the government of Hun Sen, Cambodia’s prime
minister of more than 30 years and Asia’s longest-ruling leader....
In Cambodia’s neighbouring Vietnam, Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe
rounded off a tour of Southeast Asia on Monday with a pledge to give
Hanoi six new coastguard patrol boats funded by a concessional loan.
Vietnam has repeatedly clashed heads with China over disputed territory
in the South China Sea.
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