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David Hutt
David Hutt
David Hutt is a research fellow at the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS), a European think-tank, and the Southeast Asia columnist at the Diplomat. He also writes commentary for Radio Free Asia, Nikkei Asia, Asia Times and the BBC. As a journalist, has covered Southeast Asian politics since 2014, based in Cambodia between 2014-2019. He is a former president of the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia.

As China’s partners face domestic troubles, Cambodia’s stability makes it an outlier. The relationship is more transactional than others, with no ideological bond – in many ways a good basis for regional cooperation.

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With it looking increasingly likely that Britain will exit the European Union without a deal by October 31, Japanese companies operating in the country are fearing the worst – though few have actively prepared for it.

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Cambodia’s election is widely seen as illegitimate due to the absence of the country’s biggest opposition party, but there are still 19 parties standing up to Hun Sen – even if they are small, with even slimmer hopes.