Cambodia

Hun Sen needs somebody to blame for the impending disaster.

Eager to appease his benefactor in Beijing, the Cambodian leader is excluding China’s role from the Khmer Rouge narrative.

Cambodia’s autocrat is putting his own people at risk to court his Chinese backers.

The prime minister uses a shroud of democracy to counter dissatisfaction and thwart the opposition.

Refugees who fled the Khmer Rouge as children are being deported from the United States in record numbers—and are adapting as adults to life in a country most have never known.

Cambodia’s strongman has found an unlikely American voice.

Foreign Policy staffers review recent releases.

Dubious electoral endorsements are becoming normal for dictators worldwide.

Cambodian dissidents come under cyberattack in run-up to sham election.

One branch of Canberra's notorious offshore detention system has closed. But the men who were imprisoned there are now stranded on a remote Pacific island that doesn't want them.

With Chinese support, Hun Sen has effectively destroyed all opposition to his autocratic rule.

Zuckerberg needs to stop courting Beijing and start paying attention to the countries where Facebook matters.

The United States ignores massive abuses at its own peril.

Beijing is building hydroelectric dams and dredging to allow bigger boats as worries of environmental devastation grow.

While Obama’s “pivot” to Asia gave rights advocates cause for hope, Washington’s longstanding indifference to Cambodia ensured minimal leverage.

Cambodia’s autocratic leader is trying to shut down his country’s most celebrated journalistic training ground.

An indifferent United States and assertive China have emboldened one of Asia’s longest-serving leaders to embrace outright authoritarianism.

Phnom Penh's pivot toward Beijing has less to do with the United States than hatred for Vietnam.

The U.N. tribunal that just upheld Khmer Rouge convictions is slow, biased -- and entirely indispensable.