PHNOM PENH, Oct 13, (APP/AFP) – China’s President Xi Jinping arrived in Cambodia Thursday for a state visit to one of its staunchest regional allies, with ties flourishing after the kingdom supported Beijing in a maritime dispute. Hundreds of students waving Cambodian and Chinese flags greeted Xi alongside officials at the airport before his motorcade sped into town for an audience with the royal family and later Prime Minister Hun Sen. Cambodia has long been a strident supporter for Beijing’s communist rulers, who have lavished the poor country with aid and loans. In recent years it has become a thorn in the side for its neighbours hoping to present a unified front against Beijing’s island building in the South China Sea. Several Southeast Asian nations have competing claims to parts of the strategic waters and many in the region want to keep pressure on China over its efforts to militarise the sea.
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Cambodia embraces China’s President Xi on state visit
