• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    From a cynical realpolitik perspective, Japan is investing, so to speak, on Asian countries so that if a war with China breaks out, Japan would have allies when the time comes.

    Although, as far as I know, Cambodia is a nominal ally of China because of the huge Chinese investments.

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      Cambodia hosts cyber labour camps run by Chinese, where they trick people from across ASEAN into coming there, then confiscated their passports, and force them to run online scam operations with no freedom, like, at all.