Japan PM visits Cambodia, also one of China’s key partners

By SOPHENG CHEANG
Associated Press

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has visited Cambodia for talks with the country’s longtime leader to deepen relations and promote calls for the rule of law in one of the Southeast Asia’s closest partners of both China and Japan. Kishida and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in a joint statement Sunday condemned Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and called for “an immediate stop of the use of force and the withdrawal of the military forces from the territory of Ukraine.” After China, Japan is Cambodia’s largest donor and has funded the construction of bridges, roads, ports, electricity and water supply. But Japan and the U.S. also share concerns over China. In Cambodia, Washington is focused on China’s construction of new facilities at a naval base.