Chinese Embassy Denies Debt Trap for Cambodia
12 April 2021
VOA Khmer
FILE: Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen shakes hands with China s President Xi Jinping before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China April 29, 2019. Madoka Ikegami/Pool via REUTERS
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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
The Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh said Beijing was neither creating a debt trap for Cambodia nor seeking a military presence in the country, in its response to a recent media article.
The embassy said accusations that China was intentionally attempting to saddle Cambodia with high levels of debt where it would then be beholden to the Asian superpower were “pure slander.”