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Today 16.1, AFP quoted Mr. Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, as saying that China will donate to China 1 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine to prevent Covid-19. Writing on Facebook on January 15, Mr. Hun Sen shared: “A Chinese friend is helping us with 1 million doses of vaccine.”
Vaccinate 500,000 people
Consequently, these vaccines will be used to vaccinate some 500,000 Cambodians. The next priority group to be vaccinated in Cambodia will include front-line health workers against the epidemic, teachers, soldiers of the Prime Minister, bodyguards and senior officials.
Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine has been tested in several countries |
To date, Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine has been implemented in Turkey and tests have shown an efficacy rate of approximately 91.25%. But the vaccine trials in Brazil were only 50% effective, much lower than the vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Oxford-AstraZeneca. In Indonesia, the Sinovac test vaccine was effective with a rate of about 65.3%.
In addition to Cambodia, China has recently pledged to provide 300,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Continued economic and military support
It is not too difficult to understand when Beijing made the aforementioned aid decision, because China-Cambodia relations have steadily tightened. Even in the initial period of the Covid-19 boom, although most countries closed their borders with China, only Cambodia was “open.” Even amid the pandemic, Prime Minister Hun Sen in February 2020 also traveled to Beijing and met with Mr. Xi Jinping, President of China, to show solidarity.
Cambodia has also received significant military and economic aid from China in recent years. In early October 2020, the leaf Phnom Penh post reported that the Cambodian army has received 75 military vehicles financed by China. Mr. Hun Manet, Deputy Commander of the Royal Cambodian Army, son of Mr. Hun Sen, posted photos of the reception on Facebook.
China delivered weapons from 75 military vehicles to Cambodia in October 2020 Photo: Facebook Mr. Hun Manet |
In early 2020, the blade South China morning post citing a statistic that Beijing is Phnom Penh’s largest investor, with a figure of 5.3 billion dollars between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Xinhua reported that China had lent Cambodia around 2 billion dollars since 2004.
In the same period, China built 70% of the national roads and bridges in Cambodia. More specifically, the total length of the roads in Cambodia built by China is more than 2,000 km, plus there are 7 large bridges. China’s CGTN station also claimed that Phnom Penh is an important partner of Beijing in Southeast Asia in its Belt and Road program.
At the service of the Indo-Pacific language strategy
Also, a 2019 report on the sheet. The Wall Street Journal Citing information from some US defense officials that Cambodia and China reached a military cooperation agreement at the Ream naval base in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia. After that, Phnom Penh denied the newspaper’s information.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen met Mr. Xi Jinping in Beijing in early February 2020 |
In late 2020, Cambodia admitted to having flattened a US-sponsored facility at the Ream base. The move was accused by the Pentagon as part of a military agreement between Beijing and Phnom Penh. Cambodia continues to deny the Pentagon’s accusations.
In the same year 2020, the US State Department announced sanctions against UDG for accusations that the projects in which the corporation participated in the province of Koh Kong (Cambodia), located in the Gulf of Thailand, to the south of the South China Sea, include for military purposes, which creates a threat to security in the Indo-Pacific (Indo-Pacific) region.
Observers said Beijing is trying to leverage Cambodia’s support to serve the project’s strategy in the southern South China Sea, an inlet area connecting the Indo-Pacific, in the context of the United States and its allies. intensify the Indo-Pacific strategy to deal with the rise of China.
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