Cambodia’s Japan security aid is a hedge, not a pivot from China
In February 2026, weeks after Cambodia’s National Assembly approved a draft law to ratify the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), a convention Phnom Penh signed in 1983 but never ratified, Japan unveiled plans to extend Official Security Assistance (OSA) to Cambodia. The announcement did not come out of nowhere and […] The post Cambodia’s Japan security aid is a hedge, not a pivot…
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