The answer, according to the U.S Ambassador to Cambodia, is because of the lack of respect for human rights and the rule of law in Cambodia.
Economic sanction is the effective way to teach Cambodian ruler a lesson
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
As long as the US markets are still open for Cambodia made products , China is very happy to monopolize the investments and Hun Sen doesn't really care about US investments either for he knows for sure that the US is indirectly helping the PPenh government with MFN ( Most Favored Nations ) status . All products , whether legal or not legal , are ended up in the US consumers'
hands, eg. rosewood were illegally sold to Vietnam or China then it is
used to make furnitures which are then sold for American living rooms ...
Economic sanction is the effective way to teach Cambodian ruler a lesson.
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Tough actions, and not words, is the only and best way to deal with Hun Sen
Tough actions, and not words, is the only and best way to deal with Hun Sen
Anonymous said...
6:08 PM, I agree with you 100%. Many Cambodians, and especially
Hun Sen and his supporters, forgot that America is Cambodia's biggest
trading partner, importing about $3 billion of Cambodian-made garment,
made possible by MFN (most favored nation) status. This status exempts
or charges very little import tariff on goods imported from Cambodia. As a
result, MFN status has drawn investors to Cambodia, especially Chinese
companies, because America has imposed quota on imports from China.
So,
indirectly, America's MFN has drawn investors to Cambodia anyway, so in
Hun Sen's eyes, Cambodia doesn't need to do direct business with
America or doesn't need direct American investments because the MFN has
drawn investors from other part of the world already, notably China.
The
only way to soften Hun Sen's dictatorial rule is to imposed travel
sanctions on all Hun Sen's family and his cronies like what America did
with members of the Burmese junta. That travel sanctions imposed on
Burmese officials really worked. What America can do with Hun Sen's and
his cronies is to not issue any visas to Hun Sen and his family and
cronies found to have been the human rights abusers. America can also
freeze their assets deposited in American banks around the world. If
America failed to get tough with Hun Sen, he will never understand the
diplomatic language and will still continue to practice human rights
abuses and corruption in Cambodia. Tough actions, and not words, is the
only and best way to deal with Hun Sen.
Anonymous said...
27 December 2012 10:07 PM,
Agree with you, but we have to be careful with the second Killing Fields coming from the secret Vietnamese agents. We are concerned.
We ask for the UN, EU, America or International Community to put sanctions first against Vietnam which is the one that has caused the major problems to Cambodia as well as Laos. Therefore, Hun Sen will be stuck without having his Vietnamese bosses in Hanoi to assist and protect him. So, Khmer people and Khmer armies will kill him and his secret Vietnamese crooks who works for him to collect wealth and destroy Cambodia's natural resources. America, EU, UN and International Community need to know this fact about the Vietnamese leaders who are behind all these problems and use Hun Sen as a hub serves Vietnamese bastards' interests by cheating, stealing, breaking the laws, creating lawless systems and human rights violations and beyond.
Communist Vietnam and Hun Sen should be punished and sanctioned, not putting sanctions against Cambodia. Cambodian people and armies did not cause the problem. Period!!!
It would be better for Cambodia and Cambodians to have American businesses doing direct business in Cambodia.
This way we can directly benefit from the advanced American expertise and technology.
The question is : Did Ambassador Todd discuss his facts findings and America concerns with Hun Sen directly ?
After all, Hun Sen had two of children to study in the United States, not China.
American Middle Class is shrinking fast. American society is no longer considered to be the capitalist society which is based on competition, but rather a Social Corporatism. Social Corporation is based on price gouging and profits for the few. The practice is inconsistent with competitiveness of the free market. Even its government is working for the so-call super-citizens. Because of this unfair practice, which allowed and implemented by the policy makers, the terminology “leave-it-to-the markets” has become useless. While Mom and Pop shops (small businesses) got blown up by corporations’ greed, the government bails out corporations and banks. By using Wall Street as an instrument to measure economic growths, the American government is purely incompetent and very much bringing up water to the nose for the middle class. Perhaps one day, the notion of “give me the liberty or give me death” can once again rise to the surface of the water.
The idea for the people, of the people, and by the people is dead. The American Middle Class is being ignored for so long to the point that they are unable to pursue happiness. Their votes mean nothing. The left and the right are no different. Their democracy is being hijacked by corporations. From shoes they wear for comfort to pills they take to cure illnesses and everything else in between are dictated and manipulated by corporations. The battle has yet to come for the Middle Class, America has already lost. Now it is not a matter of classes struggle any more but it is a matter of survival. Thus, the U. S. needs to ramify and to separate Corporations and Government just as they did with Religions and Government before they can dictate others what to do or what to believe. My view on Social Corporatism is as evil as Social Communism which should be used as the point to lookout for Cambodians and as the eye-openers for Americans.
The reason that American corporations could not penetrate and infuse into Cambodia is because the Hun Sen Government does not play by their rules. It has nothing to do with human right issues in the country. Don’t do what I do, but do what I said does not work in Cambodia.
To 11:08 am,
Your writing ability is superb, but your thought and analysis are way off course.
Not because Hun Sen does not play by the
" American " rules, it is because Dictator and Traitor Hun Sen has been selling his country and himself to Yuon and the Chinese.
27 December 2012 10:07 PM,
Agree with you, but we have to be careful with the second Killing Fields coming from the secret Vietnamese agents. We are concerned.
We ask for the UN, EU, America or International Community to put sanctions first against Vietnam which is the one that has caused the major problems to Cambodia as well as Laos. Therefore, Hun Sen will be stuck without having his Vietnamese bosses in Hanoi to assist and protect him. So, Khmer people and Khmer armies will kill him and his secret Vietnamese crooks who works for him to collect wealth and destroy Cambodia's natural resources. America, EU, UN and International Community need to know this fact about the Vietnamese leaders who are behind all these problems and use Hun Sen as a hub serves Vietnamese bastards' interests by cheating, stealing, breaking the laws, creating lawless systems and human rights violations and beyond.
Communist Vietnam and Hun Sen should be punished and sanctioned, not putting sanctions against Cambodia. Cambodian people and armies did not cause the problem. Period!!!
It would be better for Cambodia and Cambodians to have American businesses doing direct business in Cambodia.
This way we can directly benefit from the advanced American expertise and technology.
The question is : Did Ambassador Todd discuss his facts findings and America concerns with Hun Sen directly ?
After all, Hun Sen had two of children to study in the United States, not China.
American Middle Class is shrinking fast. American society is no longer considered to be the capitalist society which is based on competition, but rather a Social Corporatism. Social Corporation is based on price gouging and profits for the few. The practice is inconsistent with competitiveness of the free market. Even its government is working for the so-call super-citizens. Because of this unfair practice, which allowed and implemented by the policy makers, the terminology “leave-it-to-the markets” has become useless. While Mom and Pop shops (small businesses) got blown up by corporations’ greed, the government bails out corporations and banks. By using Wall Street as an instrument to measure economic growths, the American government is purely incompetent and very much bringing up water to the nose for the middle class. Perhaps one day, the notion of “give me the liberty or give me death” can once again rise to the surface of the water.
The idea for the people, of the people, and by the people is dead. The American Middle Class is being ignored for so long to the point that they are unable to pursue happiness. Their votes mean nothing. The left and the right are no different. Their democracy is being hijacked by corporations. From shoes they wear for comfort to pills they take to cure illnesses and everything else in between are dictated and manipulated by corporations. The battle has yet to come for the Middle Class, America has already lost. Now it is not a matter of classes struggle any more but it is a matter of survival. Thus, the U. S. needs to ramify and to separate Corporations and Government just as they did with Religions and Government before they can dictate others what to do or what to believe. My view on Social Corporatism is as evil as Social Communism which should be used as the point to lookout for Cambodians and as the eye-openers for Americans.
The reason that American corporations could not penetrate and infuse into Cambodia is because the Hun Sen Government does not play by their rules. It has nothing to do with human right issues in the country. Don’t do what I do, but do what I said does not work in Cambodia.
To 11:08 am,
Your writing ability is superb, but your thought and analysis are way off course.
Not because Hun Sen does not play by the
" American " rules, it is because Dictator and Traitor Hun Sen has been selling his country and himself to Yuon and the Chinese.
