The president of the group said that China provided a grant to help the Cambodian project remove landmines and unintended bombs days after the freezing of payments by the United States Agency for International Development to its partners had forced it to suspend the work.
The US State Department nor the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia did not respond to the suspension requests.
Why do it matter
Critics of the US President’s decision Donald Trumpadministration Stop foreign aid for 90 days Through the United States Agency for International Development, she said she would get Open the road China to expand its influence all over the world.
The Cambodia state in southeastern Cambodia is already one of China’s closest allies and has had a tense relationship in recent years with the United States, which it criticized due to alleged human rights violations and the lack of democracy.
What do you know
Days after he said that the operations of the Cambodian Mine Work Center had stopped temporarily due to the freezing of the United States Agency for International Development to the Partners ’groups, the Director General Heng Ratana said in a Facebook After February 5, a $ 4.4 million grant from China will support the Land Cambodia deafe project for one year from March 1, 2025.
“This is a 12 -month project and will support more than 400 CMAC technical experts.” He said that the project will work in seven provinces of the country with a population of 17 million.
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Cambodia destroyed the war in the 1970s as a result of the bombing of the United States in a war of the war in Vietnam and the genocide of the Khmer Red genocide, which was supporting the Chinese. Millions of mine are still widespread throughout the country. Halo Trust, who is carrying out landmines and removing them, says more than 18,800 has been killed by landmines since the fall of Khmer Rouge in 1979 and another 45,000 was wounded.
The American embassy in Cambodia said last year that it is expected to spend $ 12 million to remove and remove other uninterrupted munitions in Cambodia in 2025.
What happened to the American Agency for International Development?
The Cambodia government said in a statement on Friday that the United States’ financing to remove operations came from the weapons removal office and reduce the US State Department instead of the US Agency for International Development.
She said according to what he said Bennah Post Post.
The United States Agency for International Development has delivered tens of billions of dollars Foreign humanitarian aid. The Trump administration plans to integrate it with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and thousands of employees It is scheduled to lose their jobs. The changes occur under the newly formed government efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk.
What people say
Samantha Power, Director of the United States Agency for International Development Samantha in A. New York Times Opeed: “The future generations will be surprised by the fact that China’s actions are what we have eroded from global accuracy and security, which paves the way for Beijing to become a favorite partner around the world.”
President Donald Trump told reporters on February 2: “The American Agency for International Development, which is run by radical madmen, we take them out, then we will make a decision.”
Sun Sam, policy analyst at the Royal Academy of Cambodia, is quoted in Kiribost: “If China does not help, CMAC will not have enough money to continue to get rid of them in Cambodia, which makes support from China in particular important for continuous clearance efforts.”
What happens after that
Although the United States Agency for International Development decides the projects that will support it, China is likely to see opportunities to interfere in the place where the United States has reduced funding, but this does not necessarily prevent the United States to return later.
