Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen challenges US to cut all aid to his country

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Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has reportedly challenged the United States to cut all aid after it announced it was ending funding for a general election next year in response to the dissolution of the main opposition party.

Key points:

Prime Minister Hun Sen has cracked down on critics, rights groups and independent media
Opposition leader, Kem Sokha has been charged with treason
The Government accuses the Cambodia National Rescue Party of plotting a coup

Hun Sen, the strongman who has ruled Cambodia for more than three decades, has taken a strident anti-American line in an increasingly tense run-up to a 2018 election that has included a crackdown on critics, rights groups and independent media.

The United States announced on Friday it was ending funding for the election, and promised more "concrete steps", after the Supreme Court dissolved the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) at the request of the government, on the grounds it was plotting to seize power.

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-19/cambodia-tells-us-to-cut-all-aid/9166672

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1. well he could just refuse to accept it in the first place. what's a strongman to do? nt

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2. "a crackdown on critics, rights groups and independent media" - surely this is Trump's kind of man?

Ah - "China vastly outspends the United States in a country once destroyed by Cold War superpower rivalry, and its money goes on highly visible infrastructure projects and with no demands for political reform." He may be a strongman, but he's not Trump's strongman. Still, Trump was so happy with the ego stroking the Chinese gave him, you'd think he'd forgive their Cambodian guy.