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Cambodia Vietnam
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Khmer (90%)
Vietnamese (86%)
Ethnic minorities overlap
Cambodia-Vietnam border
Khmer Krom
Ethnic Vietnamese in
CambodiaVietnamese (Hoa people)
in China
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Geo-Strategic Setting
Cambodia
Borders with Vietnam,Laos and Thailand
Asymmetric powerrelations with twoneighbours
Maritime disputeswith Thailand and
Vietnam impact ondevelopment
Vietnam
Borders with China,Laos and Cambodia
Asymmetric powerrelations with oneneighbour
Maritime disputeswith China and
Cambodia impact ondevelopment
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Ge
o-strate
gicsetting
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Border protectionTerritorial integrityInternal securityand stabilityReform of RCAF
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Exchange of Defence Ministers(2003 and 2006)
IMETPresident Ngueyn Minh Triet meetsPresident Bush at the White House2007
US Navy port visits
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December 1999 LandBorder Agreement
227 sq. km disputed area
China received 114 sq km
Vietnam received 113 sq km
Aim complete demarcationby end 2008
Reach new bordermanagement agreementend of 2008
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Gulf of Tonkin
Agreements on maritime
boundary demarcationand fisheries (December
2000)
Agreements ratifiedJune 2004
April and December
2006 joint naval patrols
Beibu Gulf
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Type 094SSBN
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Mekong
Basin Sub-
region
Cambodia
and Vietnam
are downstream
states
affected by
up stream
develop-ments
Yunan
province
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China plans a
cascade of eight
dams. Twoalready built, twounder con-
struction and
four to be built.Dams are
entirely withinChina without
consultation with
downstreamstates.
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CAMBODIA
Monarchy 1993 Constitution:
neutral and non-
aligned Coalition government One-party dominant
Cambodian Peoples
Party (CPP) Ideology diluted
VIETNAM
Anti-imperialists v-integrationists
Peaceful evolution National interests Fear of lagging
behind
rich people, strongcountry
Comprehensiveintegration
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Party/
Position CommuneChiefs 1st Deputy
Chiefs
2nd Deputy
Chiefs
Council
membersTotal
CPP 1591 1125 185 5092 7993SRP 28 403 963 1266 2660FUNCINPEC 2 47 155 70 274NRP 0 46 317 62 425Two plausible outcomes: (1) authoritarian rule by entrenched
CPP (2) loosening of system to become more pluralist.
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