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Cambodia politics
![More Than a Ranking More Than a Ranking](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-06-27-015129.jpg)
More Than a Ranking
By Jacob Sims
How the U.S. State Department's latest Trafficking in Persons report could protect trafficking victims and American taxpayers alike.
![Carrots and Sticks: Washington’s Strategy to Counter Chinese Influence in Cambodia Rests on Faulty Premises Carrots and Sticks: Washington’s Strategy to Counter Chinese Influence in Cambodia Rests on Faulty Premises](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-08-11-060025.jpg)
Carrots and Sticks: Washington’s Strategy to Counter Chinese Influence in Cambodia Rests on Faulty Premises
By Arthur Eremita
Old debates about U.S. engagement have become obsolete in light of evidence that the country's elite is abetting cyberscam operations on a massive scale.
![Cambodia’s Cyber-Slavery Trafficking Denials Reflect Official Complicity, Experts Say Cambodia’s Cyber-Slavery Trafficking Denials Reflect Official Complicity, Experts Say](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-04-10-013128.jpg)
Cambodia’s Cyber-Slavery Trafficking Denials Reflect Official Complicity, Experts Say
By David Whitehouse
Despite growing evidence that Cambodia has become a source of industrial-scale cyber-scams, the authorities continue to downplay the extent of the problem.
![No, Cambodia’s Opposition Does Not Need to Take a Sabbatical No, Cambodia’s Opposition Does Not Need to Take a Sabbatical](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_17140178469286.jpg)
No, Cambodia’s Opposition Does Not Need to Take a Sabbatical
By Mu Sochua
A new non-partisan movement is aiming to give the large Cambodian diaspora a greater voice in the country's politics.
![Navalny’s Death Highlights the Dangers Facing Cambodia’s Political Prisoners Navalny’s Death Highlights the Dangers Facing Cambodia’s Political Prisoners](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-02-27-204441.jpg)
Navalny’s Death Highlights the Dangers Facing Cambodia’s Political Prisoners
By Sam Rainsy
The world should ensure that the same fate does not befall the more than 60 "hostages" in the country's prisons.
![Cambodia’s Buddhist Great Supreme Patriarch Dies, Aged 92 Cambodia’s Buddhist Great Supreme Patriarch Dies, Aged 92](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-02-27-041428.jpg)
Cambodia’s Buddhist Great Supreme Patriarch Dies, Aged 92
By Sebastian Strangio
Tep Vong, who helped revive Buddhism after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, had close and long-standing connections to the ruling Cambodian People's Party.
![The Hereditary Dictatorships of North Korea, Cambodia Have Shared Soviet Roots The Hereditary Dictatorships of North Korea, Cambodia Have Shared Soviet Roots](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-02-27-004324.jpg)
The Hereditary Dictatorships of North Korea, Cambodia Have Shared Soviet Roots
By David Whitehouse
Both nations traveled a similar path from Soviet patronage to personalist autocracy.
![Cambodia’s Opposition Needs to Take a Sabbatical Cambodia’s Opposition Needs to Take a Sabbatical](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-02-27-003300.jpg)
Cambodia’s Opposition Needs to Take a Sabbatical
By David Hutt
Opposition parties should take a page out of the ruling CPP's book and begin a process of generational renewal.
![Cambodia’s CPP Claims Lopsided Victory in Senate Elections Cambodia’s CPP Claims Lopsided Victory in Senate Elections](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-02-26-044509.jpg)
Cambodia’s CPP Claims Lopsided Victory in Senate Elections
By Sebastian Strangio
The foreordained result is the latest development in the generational transition that peaked with last year's handover of power from Hun Sen to his son Hun Manet.
![Cambodia Gears Up For Low-Stakes Senate Election Cambodia Gears Up For Low-Stakes Senate Election](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-02-23-012250.jpg)
Cambodia Gears Up For Low-Stakes Senate Election
By Sebastian Strangio
The ruling CPP is set to sweep most of the seats, after which it is expected to appoint former Prime Minister Hun Sen as the body's president.
![Cambodia’s Former PM Sues Rights Activist For Defamation Cambodia’s Former PM Sues Rights Activist For Defamation](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-02-07-051019.jpg)
Cambodia’s Former PM Sues Rights Activist For Defamation
By Sebastian Strangio
The lawsuit, filed on Monday, is the latest sign that the country's rolling political crackdown is continuing under its new-look leadership.
![Aren’t Cambodia’s Journalists Tired Of Being Spoken Down To? Aren’t Cambodia’s Journalists Tired Of Being Spoken Down To?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-01-31-225448.jpg)
Aren’t Cambodia’s Journalists Tired Of Being Spoken Down To?
By David Hutt
The country's government views the press as an adjunct of power.
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