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Artist: Akezhanga (Manchu name) or Song Ling (Chinese name), c. 18th century
Modern Western ideas concerning the purpose and practice of politics are threaded through with assumptions and concepts developed during the Enlightenment, and primary among these is the vision of the state as a kind of formalised protection racket.
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Image: Sihanoukville's Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) as seen from National Highway No. 4 near Ream commune; Wikirictor, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0
I have discussed broadly the impact that increased trade and investment has had on Cambodia’s development. One of the most concrete policy examples of this being the case is in Cambodia’s Special Economic Zones (SEZ).
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SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (May 1, 2012) U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) anchors off the coast of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Blue Ridge is on patrol in the Asia-Pacific and in Sihanoukville for a port visit. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Sarah A. Stancati/Released); CC BY-NC
This week's round up of China-Cambodia related news.
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Image: South China Morning Post
Just a brief round-up of some of the events that caught my eye this week, more on Sino-Cambodian relations soon.
Photo: 澜沧江边的架线工人/wireman on the riverside of Mekong; Mingjia Zhou in Nanjian, Yunnan, PRC; 11 September 2009; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
China's track record with regional cooperation, historically, has been "patchy" to say the least. The dismal outcomes of the 1990s era Tumen River Basin project in China's northeast regularly gallop to my mind when the phrase "regional cooperation" is uttered.
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