Cambodia’s take on FOIP
A ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ (FOIP) seems to be a work in progress and it is still not clear how much support it could garner from Asean member states. Chheang Vannarith argues that as long as FOIP serves common regional economic interests, Cambodia is willing to be part of it.
[…]The Mekong region, for better or worse, is becoming the new strategic frontier of the Indo-Pacific due to its geographical location and the presence of all major powers. The tensions over the management of the Mekong River will likely escalate as Japan and the US put more emphasis on the issue.
