Saturday, 14 August 2021

The Cost of Carrying Water for Xi Jinping


May be a cartoon

The Chinese-funded Lower Sesan 2 Dam in northeastern Cambodia has displaced thousands of indigenous and ethnic minority people and destroyed the livelihoods of many others, according to an Aug. 10 report by Human Rights Watch. HRW faulted Beijing and Cambodia for failing to provide adequate compensation to villagers for widespread harm done in building the dam, a project under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of investment in infrastructure. The environmental damage and the troubles of the displaced villagers also showed that BRI funding comes with “no oversight,” the New York-based rights group said. Cambodia accused HRW of trying to “subvert Cambodia’s development to nurture conflict to serve a real political agenda.”
 

Illustration by RFA's Rebel Pepper

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

China's business: China gives you $1.00, China will get back from you $10.00.

Whereas the evil Vietnam's business: Vietnam does not give you anything, and Vietnam will kill you too.

Touv Na Min Khmer Roleuy doing business with these 2 evils.