我爱你到死Chinese President Jiang Zemin, right, embraces former King Norodom Sihanouk as they meet for talks in Kunming, southwestern Yunnan province, China, in 1999. (Photo: AP)
Men Kimseng, VOA Khmer
Washington, DC Wednesday, 25 August 2010
"While the Chinese government has cultivated a relationship with the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Cambodian People’s Party, the former king has never been far from the picture."Although China maintains certain principles in its foreign policy, in the case of Cambodia it has also used inter-personal relationships.
Despite sweeping political changes in Cambodia over the past 50 years, the Chinese government has continued to focus its relationship on former king Norodom Sihanouk, according to author Sophie Richardson, who recently released a new book called “China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence.”
While the Chinese government has cultivated a relationship with the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Cambodian People’s Party, the former king has never been far from the picture, Richardson writes.
Chinese leaders have often “referred to Sihanouk, their fellow traveler of four decades, as a positive model for the CPP,” she writes.
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