WEEKEND EDITION All the News Without Fear or Favor The DaIly Volume 66 issue 7 Saturday-Sunday, November 12-13, 2016 2,000 riel/50 cents Two Men Missing After Pre-Festival Boat Crash By Buth KimSay The CamboDia Daily Two men were missing on Fri- day evening after a cruise ship car- rying Vietnamese tourists smashed into a row boat full of would-be Wa- ter Festival competitors on the Ton- le Sap river running through central Phnom Penh earlier in the day, offi- cials said. Prek Thmei commune chief Liv Vanntheng said the collision hap- pened near the Sokha Hotel at about 7:10 a.m. when the cruiseco adven- turer ship blindsided the reasmey Sreysros Danh Tep Senchey, which Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily was carrying nine paddlers from Rowers practice on Phnom Penh's Tonle Sap river ahead of Water Festival races starting on Sunday. chbar ampov district. Festival guide and map on page 5 of the Weekend magazine “The river water had a strong flow and the boat was transporting the rowers in the opposite direc- tion of the upstream current,” he New Urgency to US-Australia Refugee Deal said, explaining that the boat was being propelled by a small engine By Rod FoRd Trump takes office in January. nauru and Papua new Guinea’s that was struggling against the The Wall STreeT Journal The republican president-elect Manus island that critics have strong current. canberra, australia - Donald has taken a hard line on immigra- called australia’s “Guan tanamo “The racing boat turned to the Trump’s election as the new U.S. tion, threatening to block Muslims bay.” Pyne said on Fri day, “We’d side of the river...then swerved into president gave fresh urgency to from entering the U.S. and to build all dearly love to see nauru and the way of the ship, which crashed australia’s efforts to send up to a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Manus empty.” into the boat,” Mr. Vanntheng 1,800 refugees to the U.S. in a pur- It wasn’t clear whether a Trump ad- In a resettlement deal signed in said. ported deal with the administration ministration would be able to re- 2014 with australia, cambodia The boat then began to sink as of U.S. President barack Obama. verse any such refugee deal. agreed to welcome an unspecified police attempted to help the row- cabinet Minister christopher australia hopes an agreement number of the hundreds of ref- ers to shore, he said. Pyne, australia’s Defense In dustry with the U.S. would allow it to close ugees being held on nauru on a Continued on page 2 Minister, said on Friday there was contentious immigration deten- strictly voluntary basis in exchange time to conclude a deal before tion camps on the Pacific islands of Continued on page 2 China Goes to the Polls, Largely Unnoticed

By Simon denyeR living in the village of Gaodiansan blemaker,” she said. “They think on the outskirts of beijing, appears this is the government’s decision beIJInG - all around Liu Huizhen’s to have china’s communist Party and I won’t win in the end. but I am makeshift house, clusters of men worried. not afraid. I have the right to partic- lurked and smoked on a recent She wants to exercise her con- ipate in this election. I didn’t do day, suspiciously eyeing passers- stitutional right to stand in local anything illegal.” by. Dozens of uniformed police elections due to be held in the cap- between august and De cem - waited in reserve, ready in case of ital on Tuesday, and around a ber, china is holding staggered lo- trouble, while a thuggish man dozen supporters had arrived to cal elections all across the country What Does Trump's Win Say stood in the middle of the road help her begin her campaign. —an exercise in “grassroots de - About the US as a Nation? Weekend magazine page 6 with arms defiantly folded, pre- They were to be blocked with a de- mocracy” on a daunting scale. The venting cars from passing. cisive show of force. communist Party says “all power cambodiadaily.com Liu, a 45-year-old farmer’s wife “Some people think I am a trou- Continued on page 6

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Tiny Penguins Avoid Rush Hour ■leonaRd cohen, rock music’s man of letters whose songs fused re- ligious imagery with themes of redemption and sexual desire, earning centimeter tall penguins, which him critical and popular acclaim, has died at 82, a statement on his a group of tiny blue penguins in weigh about a kilogram, reside. Facebook page said. “We have lost one of music’s most revered and new Zealand have had their own “The project was supported by prolific visionaries,” it said. “r.I.P. Leonard cohen,” singer-songwriter underpass built to protect them the local Waitaki District council, caRole King said on Twitter. Singer RoSeanne caSh echoed the lyrics from traffic and give them privacy as well as a number of private busi- from cohen’s song “anthem,” saying in a tweet: “Leonard cohen is from tourists keen to take pictures nesses who offered labor, materi- dead. There’s a crack in everything. no light yet.” cohen, a native of of the world’s smallest penguin. als and advice,” said Jason Gaskill, Quebec, was already a celebrated poet and novelist when he moved to The private passage was built to of Tourism Waitaki Limited. new York in 1966 at age 31 to break into the music business. His song help the bird’s commute between Power and water supply lines “Hallelujah,” in which he invoked the biblical King David and drew par- their nests and the sea at Oamaru were moved so the 25-meter tunnel allels between physical love and a desire for spiritual connection, has Harbour, Otago, on new Zealand’s could be positioned along the pen- been covered hundreds of times since its 1984 release. (Reuters) southeast coast, where the 30- guins’ usual route, local media said.

closure of Manus, ruling that hun- tries to clear costly refugee centers criticism of its hard-line efforts to Refugee... dreds of asylum-seekers were being in third countries, say refugee ad- deter illegal migration, including held illegally on australia’s behalf. vocacy groups. blockading vessels. The U.n. and continued FRom page 1 but australia has refused to take The australian newspaper re- rights groups have repeatedly con- for an additional $30.7 million in aid any of the detainees under a tough ported on Friday that a deal could demned conditions in the Pacific over four years. border blockade policy aimed at be announced as soon as this camps, including alleged instances Only six refugees have accepted deterring people smuggling, de- weekend. One australian immi- of sexual abuse. the offer so far and the first four, claring no asylum-seeker who ar- gration department official said australia’s Foreign Minister who arrived in cambodia in June rived since the start of the policy both the U.S. and canada were in- Julie bishop told australia’s Parlia- last year, already have returned to would ever be allowed to settle in volved in the talks with canberra. ment this week that the govern- their home countries. The latest, the country. Turnbull declined to comment ment’s tough approach—soon to from Syria, arrived last Sunday. australian Prime Minister Mal- on the report, citing its speculative be strengthened with a lifetime australia’s conservative govern- colm Turnbull said during a U.S. nature. both australia’s govern- ban on asylum-seekers obtaining ment has said for months that it was visit in September that talks were ment and U.S. diplomats in aus- any visa—had “restored integrity in talks with unnamed countries underway with the Obama admin- tralia declined to comment on the and credibility back into our bor- to resettle refugees held in the istration for australia to resettle report. der protection.” australian-backed detention camps people from U.S.-backed camps in The head of australia’s Immi- but in a break with years of bi- for asylum-seekers. Most come costa rica who had fled central gration Department, Michael Pez- partisan support for tough immi- from afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, american violence in an exchange zullo, declined to answer ques- gration laws, the country’s Labor Iran and Sri Lanka. for australia’s Pacific island refu - tions about any refugee deal with opposition this week said the new negotiations became more ur- gees. The Obama administration the U.S. at a Friday appearance be- law overreached and promised to gent in april when Papua new hasn’t commented on any talks. fore australian lawmakers. vote against it, leaving its status Guinea’s highest court ordered the The deal would allow both coun- australia has faced international unclear.

Sun channa, 18, one of the crew He then accused the ship’s cap- Friday. Boat Crash... members that survived, said none tain of deliberately smashing into If the two missing rowers are of the team noticed the ship until his boat. found to have lost their lives, it continued FRom page 1 seconds before it smashed into “My boat was in front of the ship. would be the first deadly incident to Despite seven of the group man- their boat. The ship’s captain had the inten- hit the Water Festival since the aging to reach the shore safely, “When I saw the ship, we could tion to crash into my boat—that’s 2010 stampede that claimed 353 two men—chhoeun chon, 36, not turn the boat or reduce the why it came straight toward my lives, an event the government said and Sok chanchesda, 18—went speed to avoid the crash at all be- boat,” he said. caused the single largest loss of life missing, he said. cause the ship was so close al- “It would not have crashed if the in cambodia since the Khmer “We still have not found both vic- ready,” he said. ship’s captain had turned the rud- rouge era. tims and I cannot confirm whether Mr. channa said he did not see der,” he added. Starting on Sunday, this week’s both of them are dead or still alive,” his two missing teammates after representatives from cruiseco festival, traditionally an annual he said. “They might have swam the crash as he was attempting to Line, the company that owns the event, will be only the second since somewhere else to take a rest.” save his own life. ship, could not be contacted on the 2010 tragedy.

------National Brief ------Three Taiwanese Tourists Severely Injured in Crash Three Taiwanese tourists were seriously injured when their bus over- turned while traveling from Siem reap to Phnom Penh, according to news reports. The tourists were reportedly members of a group of 11 tak- ing a five-day tour of the country, arranged by Taipei-based travel agency Lion Travel. The company told The Taipei Times and The china Post that the accident occurred on Wednesday morning when the group’s bus swerved to avoid a head-on collision with a motorcyclist, who was alleged- ly driving on the wrong side of the road, and overturned. The three who were seriously injured were being treated at a Phnom Penh hospital, while the other members of the group—including five who sustained mi- nor injuries—were to have returned to Taiwan on Friday, the travel agency said. The Ministry of Foreign affairs said in a statement that it would assist the family members of the severely injured tourists if they wished to visit them in the hospital, reported. (Brian Leli) SaTurDay-SunDay, november 12-13, 2016 The Cambodia daily 3 NatioNal Briefing In Sokha Case, Commune Chief Denies Bribery By Sek odom Mao Monyvann called me telling gave the money to her mother. The CamboDia Daily me to give $500 to Srey Mom’s The case over the alleged affair Over 16,000 Observers During the opening day of his mother,” Mr. Chet told the court, has since snowballed, with four Approved for Elections trial over accusations he bribed using a nickname for Ms. Chan - senior officers from Adhoc and an The National Election Commit - the alleged mistress of CNRP Vice daraty. “It was charity money from election official be ing jailed, while tee announced on Friday that it has President to deny an abroad to help her family while Mr. Sokha was handed a five-month approved more than 16,000 observ - affair, Seang Chet, a commune Srey Mom was having a problem.” sentence for failing to appear for ers from nine political parties and chief in Kom pong Cham province, Mr. Monyvann previously con- questioning in the case. He re mains 13 NGOs to monitor ongoing voter claimed on Friday that a $500 gift firmed this account, claiming the free pend ing appeal. registrations, with the figure expect - was not a bribe but a charitable money was a donation from the Also on Friday morning, the Ad - ed to rise further by next year’s donation. Cambodian diaspora in New hoc officers and Ny Chakrya, the com mune elections. A three-month Mr. Chet was arrested and Zealand. National Election Committee offi- voter registration period has been charged in April after being ac - The lawmaker also offered five cial, were denied bail once again for underway in 1,633 communes since cused of bribing Mr. Sokha’s al - pieces of advice for Ms. Chanda - allegedly bribing Ms. Chandaraty, September 1—and is scheduled to leged mistress, Khom Chandaraty, raty, Mr. Chet claimed. The list according to Sam Sokong, the law - end on November 27—in an at - amid a high-profile investigation included that she should not visit y er representing Mr. Chakrya. tempt to build a clean voter list for into the pair’s relationship in a case the Interior Ministry alone, that she “All defendants remain under upcoming elections following wide- that has been widely derided as be - should be tight-lipped with journal- court supervision. They worry spread irregularities in 2013. Ac - ing po litically motivated. ists and that she should ask rights those defendants will connive with cording to the announcement, the Appearing at the Phnom Penh group Adhoc to arrange a meeting other witnesses or charged per- opposition CNRP has the highest Municipal Court on Friday, Mr. with U.N. officials to discuss the sons,” Mr. Sokong said. number of observers, at 6,813, while Chet admitted to giving $500 to Ms. possibility of leaving Cambodia. “They should be bailed because the ruling CPP has 4,579. Funcin - Chandaraty’s mother, but said it As he was unable to meet Ms. they have illnesses...and high blood pec and the Khmer National Unit - was simply a donation on behalf of Chandaraty in person, the com- pressure,” he added. ed Party, a splinter royalist party, CNRP lawmaker Mao Monyvann. mune chief said he passed on the A verdict in the commune chief’s also registered 935 and 1,033 moni- “On March 10, His Excellency information to her sister-in-law and case is expected on December 5. tors, respectively. The election com - mittee’s spokesman, Hang Puthea, said the observers would need to NGOs Ask Gov’t to Suspend All Sand Dredging re-register for monitoring during By Hang SokuntHea meeting still sought answers on that trade gaps in imports and ex - and Ben Paviour the import-export gap. ports were routine occurrences on polling and vote-counting days. The CamboDia Daily Among NGOs, the Committee for “There are still many doubts the U.N. Commodity Trade Stat - Cambodia should suspend all Free and Fair Elections has regis- about it,” he said, adding that the istics Database, where the figures sand dredging in Koh Kong prov - tered the most observers, at 1,024, NGOs had other concerns about are housed. ince until the government gets to the legality of current sand dredg- Still, Mr. Tina cannot explain while the Union of Youth Federa - the bottom of suspiciously low sand ing operations and their po tential to “why the gap is really different,” tions of Cambodia—headed by export figures, a group of NGOs cause ecological damage. Mr. Mala said. Prime Minister ’s son said Friday at a meeting with the “We also requested that they A Cambodia Daily analysis of Hun Many—has the second-most, Ministry of Mines and Energy. publish all the documents, includ- the country’s wood exports found with 605. (Kuch Naren) The government must develop ing the name of the companies that a reporting gap on the commodi- Man Caught With 2 Kg a better system for managing the have licenses...on the [ministry] ty database amounting to nearly Of Cocaine Inside Cakes sand trade “as we have a bad rep- website, but the government hasn’t $1 billion, which economists and utation on sand exports right now,” agreed,” he said. “They said if we activists said also warranted more A Malaysian man was caught said San Chey, country director want to look at them, just go to the investigation. with more than 2 kg of cocaine hid - for the good-governance NGO ministry to check.” Florian Eberth, a statistical officer den in vacuum-sealed cakes in side Affil iat ed Network for Social Ministry spokesman Dith Tina at the World Trade Organization, his carry-on luggage at Phnom Accountability. did not respond to requests for emphasized last week that “there Penh International Airport on “There is no response from the comment. are always some discrepancies” in Wednesday, leading police to an - ministry yet on this request be - San Mala, co-founder of the envi- import and export data compar- other Malaysian man who planned cause the government said they ronmental NGO Mother Nature, isons, but the trade asymmetries in to receive the drugs, an official said are waiting for detailed documents said Mr. Tina had made the case this case “look rather huge.” on Friday. Both men were arrest- from Koh Kong,” the coastal prov - ed and will soon be sent to the mu - ince from which much of the sand nicipal court after confessing un der is dredged, he added. police questioning, said In Song, a The government has come senior officer in the National Po- under pressure to explain why the lice’s anti-drug department. “We Ministry of Commerce counted stopped to check the suspect. We just 14.3 million tons of sand ex - found drugs in cakes in plastic,” he ports from 2005 to last year, while said. He said Mohamad Rizduan the rest of the world—led by the de parted from Brazil with 2.17 kg island city-state of Singapore— of cocaine and arrived in Cambo - recorded importing more than 75 dia via Peru and Qatar. His in tend - million metric tons of sand during ed destination was Hong Kong. the period. But Cambodian police stopped him Responding to a letter from 41 be fore the final leg of the trip, and civil society groups demanding an - upon finding the drugs had Mr. swers and transparency, the min- Rizduan lead them to Hem ka vin istry issued an open letter inviting Karthig Su, a fellow Malay sian stay - them to a three-hour, closed-door ing at the Mekong View Tower meeting in Phnom Penh on Friday. Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily who planned to receive the cocaine Speaking after the meeting, Mr. San Chey, country director of NGO Affiliated Network for Social once it arrived in Phnom Penh, Chey said the 10 representatives Accountability, speaks to reporters after a meeting in Phnom Penh on Mr. Song said. (Buth Kimsay) of the civil sector who attended the Friday with the Ministry of Mines and Energy. 4 The Cambodia daily saturday-sunday, november 12-13, 2016 NatioNal Briefing N Korea Condemns UN’s Criticism of Cambodia By colin Meyn representative, Wan-Hea Lee, criti- share,” she said in an email. Cambodian Re-Elected in the cambodia daily cized the government’s decision to “At the heart of the matter is A senior North Korean diplomat officially exile opposition leader the fact that when restrictions are Massachusetts Legislature has seized on the current dispute , Foreign Minister Prak imposed on this or any other hu - A 46-year-old former Buddhist between the U.N.’s human rights Sokhonn lashed out at the local man right, the UN Human Rights monk who arrived in the U.S. as a office and Ministry of Foreign Af - office in a letter on November 4. Committee—and indeed, the Cam - child refugee of the Khmer Rouge fairs to blast the U.N. for its regular “I have noted with deep regret bodian public—will expect an ex - has been re-elected to the Massa - criticism of Cambodia’s woeful hu - that while the OHCHR has explic- planation, which Cambodia is ob - chu setts legislature, defeating a fel- man rights record. itly refused to mention the respect liged to provide through many well low Cambodian for a seat repre- Hwang Chol, a deputy director for sovereignty of Cambodia, its established reporting channels,” senting the blue-collar city of Lo - in North Korea’s Foreign Affairs representative in Phnom Penh has she added. well. Rady Mom, a Democrat who Min istry, rebuked the U.N.’s Office continued interfering into the in - Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for first won the seat in 2014, blitzed of the High Commissioner for Hu - ternal affairs of the Kingdom of the Interior Ministry, which issued his Republican challenger, Kamara man Rights (OHCHR) in Cambo - Cambodia,” the letter said. the directives banning Mr. Rainsy’s Kay, with a tally of 7,985 votes to dia in an interview with the state- “In the absence of a valid Mem - return, has said the government 3,091, according to unofficial re - run Korean Central News Agency. orandum of Understanding (MoU) has no obligation to explain its deci- sults from Tuesday’s election pub- Reiterating a statement released between the Royal Government of sion to the U.N. or anyone else. lished by local media. “Every day I by Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry Cambodia and the High Commis - Iniyan Ilango, U.N. advocacy wake up excited to do the work I do,” Mr. Mom told the Lowell Sun ear lier this month, he said the sioner for Human Rights, the cur- man ager for the Asian Forum for in an interview at the Pailin City Res - U.N.’s human rights body was vio- rent operation and activities of the Human Rights and Development, taurant in Lowell, a city about 50 lating the “principle of respect for OHCHR in Cambodia, including said the government was resort- km from Boston and home to near- sovereignty and non-interference those of its Country Representa tive, ing to a time-tested defense when ly 40,000 Cambodian-Americans. “I in domestic affairs” in its work in are not legitimate,” it said. hit with criticism about human will work every day so I can earn Cambodia. Chum Sounry, spokesman for rights violations. your vote in my next re-election.” “Every year the U.N. raises the is - the Foreign Affairs Ministry, has re - “Interference into domestic af - Born in Pailin province as the son sue of human rights while violating peatedly declined to explain what fairs and sovereignty is a common of a ruby miner and village chief, the principle of fairness when dis- “not legitimate” means in regards argument often used by states to Mom, an acupuncturist, arrived in cussing human rights and showing to the U.N.’s operations here. deflect legitimate criticism by the the U.S. in 1982. His rival, Mr. Kay, sympathy for hostile acts against Ms. Lee said earlier this week UN and other international actors,” is a 44-year-old IT specialist who sovereign states,” Mr. Hwang told that she was dismayed with how Mr. Ilango wrote in an email. “It’s was born in Battambang province the news agency on Thursday. her comments, sent in an email to very concerning that if after delay- and move to the U.S. at the age of The local OHCHR office re mains The Cambodia Daily, had been ing the MoU now the government 8. (The Cambodia Daily) in a standoff with the government writ ten about in the media, but that is arguing that OHCHR cannot over its memorandum of under- the central issue was whether there legitimately expresses concerns in Ministry Takes First Step standing to operate in Cambodia, were legitimate grounds for the the absence of the MoU.” Toward Grants for Arts which expired nearly a year ago. gov ernment to deprive Mr. Rainsy, “At the last session of the UN The Ministry of Culture and Fine The government is insisting that a Cambodian citizen, of his right to Human Rights Council, faced with Arts has taken the first step toward language is added about non-inter- return to the country. strong criticism, Cambodia made setting up grant funding for the ference in national sovereignty, “I understand that the Govern - an explicit commitment to work arts, ministry officials said on Fri - which the U.N. has said it is willing ment is unhappy with the way in with OHCHR,” he added. “If this is day. Moulnithi Tratrong Ning Ak - to include only as part of a broader which my response to questions the current posturing of the gov - phivath Silapak Cheat—the foun- recognition of the office’s mandate about the compatibility of the entry ernment it would suggest that it dation for national arts support and under the U.N. Charter. ban on Mr. Sam Rainsy with hu - has no intention of honouring this development—was established late After the U.N. Human Rights man rights law has been transmit- commitment or cooperating with last month, Hab Touch, the minis - Council and the OHCHR’s country ted in the media, which I also the UN.” try’s director-general of intangible heritage, confirmed on Friday. How arts organizations and artists may ‘Why Were We Killed?’ Soldier Asks at Tribunal apply for funds—and where the By Sonia KohlBacher phan for crimes against humanity He participated in the 1975 at - money will come from—remained the cambodia daily in clud ing genocide. tack on Phnom Penh, which top- to be determined, he added. Sin A former Khmer Rouge soldier The witness, identified only as 2- pled the Lon Nol government that Chan saya, director of the ministry’s who helped bring the regime to TCCP-235 because of his involve- preceded the Khmer Rouge’s four- film department, welcomed the power in 1975 returned to his ment in ongoing investigations, year reign, he said, and continued news. “Few people write literature home village after its fall to dis- directed his testimony at the two nowadays because the income is to serve the hard-line communist too low,” he said Friday. “If income cover that more than 20 family accused leaders. regime in its later battles against can be higher, more experienced members had been tortured and “Why [were] my parents, my Vietnam until the neighboring coun - writers may join in and write liter- killed, he testified at the Khmer blood siblings and my relatives, try finally defeated it in 1979. ary works.” The ministry has held Rouge tribunal on Friday. my self and my comrades in arms... On Friday, the witness recalled a several meetings with arts organi- “It was the most regretful and tortured, imprisoned and forced radio broadcast during the Khmer zations in recent years, and one of painful experience for me,” he to work day and night with insuffi- Rouge era in which Khieu Sam - the requests made by organizations said. “They were arrested, tor- cient food?” he asked. “They sub- phan announced food rations and and artists has been access to grant tured and executed. Every time I sequently disappeared. Why did described his government as the funding. The Culture Ministry is think of them I feel the pain, emo- such things happen?” “perfect regime.” tasked with supporting the devel- tionally and physically, and I have As a 15-year-old monk in 1971, Having devoted his life to the opment of culture and arts in the been traumatized since.” during a time in which the Khmer regime, he could not accept what country, and also funds the Royal “I tried to follow party lines. I sac- Rouge was expanding its influ- they had done to his home, he said, University of Fine Arts and the Sec - rificed my life, and I did not mind ence in the Cambodian country- and lodged a complaint with the ondary School of Fine Arts, which as to when I die,” he told the tri- side, the witness was defrocked U.N.-backed court to seek justice train visual and performing artists, bunal, which is pursuing a case by the regime, assigned to hard for his family and the up to 2 million circus performers, musicians and against former Khmer Rouge lead- labor and made to join its military, other Cambodians killed during others. (Hang Sokunthea) ers Nuon Chea and Khieu Sam - he said. the period. satuRday-sunday, novembeR 12-13, 2016 The Cambodia daily 5 Regional Philippine Leader Says He Will ------Regional Briefs ------Thailand’s Crown Prince Returns for Official Duties Honor Defense Pacts With US bangkok - Thailand’s Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn returned to ReuteRs bangkok on Friday, just weeks before he is due to ascend the throne, four senior military sources with knowledge of the matter said. Fresh Manila - Philippine President Ro - questions about the succession arose when the prince flew to germany drigo Duterte said on Friday he last month to attend to personal business. Thailand is making prepara- would respect defense treaties with tions for the prince to ascend the throne on December 1, though a formal “friends” and “ally” the U.S., but coronation will be at least one year from now. The country has been with- still wanted foreign troops to leave out a monarch since revered king bhumibol adulyadej died on october his country by the end of his term. 13. The prince’s return to Thailand, will likely ease any concerns about Duterte spared the U.S. one of the succession, said bangkok-based lecturer and analyst gothom arya. his trademark verbal lashings and “His return will likely stop any lingering rumors that the ascension proc - took a more conciliatory tone than ess, when it happens, will not proceed smoothly,” he said. Thailand’s mili- usual, although he hinted at revok- tary government submitted a new constitution for royal endorsement on ing the 2014 Enhanced Defense Tuesday. Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has said that only the Cooperation agreement that gives new monarch can approve the charter. by law, the monarch or regent, U.S. troops rotational access to has 90 days to ap prove the constitution after it is submitted. (Reuters) Phil ippine bases. “We are friends, with an ally, we Gunmen in Philippines Kidnap Six Vietnamese Sailors have a military pact that would bind Retuers Manila - gunmen abducted six Vietnamese sailors and shot another on us,” he said at a news conference. Philippine President Ro drigo Duterte Friday when a bulk carrier was intercepted in Philippine waters off a south- “We will maintain our coopera- foreign soldiers in his country. ern island stronghold of the militant abu Sayyaf group, the coast guard tion...and respect is there, and in all “We do not need any foreigners said. The cargo ship was bound for Davao City in another part of the prov - matters between the two countries, to train Filipino troops. by them- ince of Mindanao, but was intercepted when passing through a strait off especially the treaties we signed selves they are warriors,” he added. basilan island by 10 armed men who came aboard and took hostages. with them, so many agreements, He also said he would be turn- “one of the crew was shot and was evacuated to a local hospital,” said we will honor all of these things.” ing to other countries for defense Commander Jerome Cayabyab of the coast guard. He said the fate of the Duterte has been strongly against, procurements, like China, israel, captives was uncertain after they were transferred to smaller, faster boats. it at times furious about, dependence Japan and Russia, because U.S. was the second kidnapping incident in the south in a week. abu Sayyaf, a on the former colonial power and “gadgets” were expensive. militant group that swears allegiance to the islamic State militant group, has called for the scrapping of doz - a change at the White House said on Monday that it had kidnapped a german national. The military said ens of joint exercises. would not affect his decision to build a woman found dead in an abandoned yacht off an island near basilan was He said the Philippines did not closer alliances with countries be - believed to be his female companion. The militang group currently has 16 need the exercises and by the end yond the U.S., like China and South - captives, including a netherlands citizen, a german, five Malay sians, two of his six-year term he wanted no east asian nations, he said. indonesians and seven Filipinos. (Reuters) 6 The Cambodia daily satuRday-sunday, novembeR 12-13, 2016 regional Japan, India Leaders Sign Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Pact Kyodo As a way to ensure that the nu- tokyo - Japan and India signed a clear technology will not be di verted civilian nuclear cooperation pact on to military use, the deal in cludes a Friday, paving the way for Japan to separate document that al lows Ja - export nuclear power equipment pan to halt its nuclear cooperation and technology to the fast-growing if India breaches its commitment South Asian country in the first made in September 2008 to a “mo - such deal with a nonmember of the ratorium on nuclear testing.” Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty. India, a nuclear weapons state, India has not joined the NPt tested nuclear explosive devices regime that is designed to prevent in the 1970s and 1990s. the spread of nuclear weapons. the signing comes as India, “this agreement is a legal frame- whose economy grew 7.6 percent work which will ensure India will last year, hopes for Japan’s help to take a responsible action regarding meet the increasing need for a sta- the peaceful use of nuclear energy. ble power supply. With more than It leads to India virtually taking part 300 million people living without in the international regime,” Jap - Reuters electricity in India, the country aims anese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and his Indian counterpart to increase the proportion of nu - said at a joint news conference. Narendra Modi review an honor guard in Tokyo. clear power-generated electricity “It matches with our country’s “our cooperation in this field will nuclear nonproliferation and dis- from 2 percent now to 25 percent stance to promote nonprolifera- help us combat the challenge of cli- armament goals that Japan pur- of the total by 2050. tion and a world without nuclear mate change,” Modi said. sues as the sole victim of a nuclear Japan, looking to tap into the weapons.” India has already signed such nu - attack. they are also concerned Indian market with its population Indian Prime Minister Narendra clear deals with France, Russia and about the safety of nuclear power of 1.3 billion, is promoting exports Modi said the signing marks “a his- the U.S., among other countries. generation in the wake of the Fu - of infrastructural products, includ- toric step in our engagement to Some civil groups in Japan op- kushima Daiichi nuclear plant dis- ing nuclear plants, as part of its build a clean energy partnership.” pose the pact, saying it goes against aster in March 2011. growth strategy.

encing the hard way what that Interviews with a half-dozen candi- at Peking University but now lives China... really means. dates revealed that none had been in New york, told the China Change on this day, she was kept under allowed to organize meetings or to website. continued from page 1 house arrest for most of the morn- campaign. But the idea of democracy was in China belongs the people,” and ing, allowed out briefly to meet her Many had been barred from beguiling, and it spread far and this is the people’s every-five-year friends before being sent home even collecting their nomination wide during the 1980s—only to be chance to express their wishes again. the previous day, she slipped papers, and very few, if any, expect violently crushed in the wake of the through the ballot box. away from the two men who have to meet the of ficial selection com- 1989 tiananmen Square protests. yet reading China’s closely con- been tailing her to meet reporters. mittee’s ap proval to get their names there were small glimmers of trolled state media, you’d barely the roots of her candidacy, she on the list of candidates. Four were democratic life in the early 2000s: A know the elections were happen- explained, lay in the bulldozing of driven away by police to the east- young university lecturer named ing, with news confined to brief her house in 2014 to make way for a ern city of Hangzhou so they could Xu Zhiyong was elected in 2001 and an nouncements of voting days in commercial real estate development, not file their papers. Another, a 72- 2006 in Beijing’s Haidian district, for different counties and assurances and the eight months she sub se - year-old woman, said she was con- example. In 2011, hundreds of inde- that officials were ready. It is as far quently spent in jail for protesting. stantly fol lowed by two men even pendent candidates emerged from removed from the hoopla of the “I suffered a lot when I was pro - while walk ing her dog. the vast all walks of life, many using the ex - U.S. presidential race as one can testing because I did not under- majority of vot ers will not even have citing new tool of social media to imagine. stand the law,” she said. “But now I heard of them. advertise themselves. “Voters aren’t enthusiastic, and learned some basic laws, and I want Li Fan, the founder of the World yet the glimmers were soon ex - it would be useless for state media to help other people, not to make and China Institute, a private think tinguished. Xu and most of the to publicize it,” said Fang Ning, an the same mistakes I made.” tank, says more established and internet-savvy candidates were sim - expert on political reforms at the Liu is one of 58 independent can - politically connected independent ply banned from running in 2011. China Academy of Social Sciences didates in Beijing who have joined candidates can sometimes get par - three years later, Xu was sentenced in Beijing. together to declare their intentions ty approval to run. to four years in jail for starting a About 2.5 million seats are up publicly. Most are what is known “Local government does not grass roots New Citizens Movement. for grabs at the district, county and in China as “petitioners,” people crack down on every independent In the northeastern city of tian - village levels for seats in local “Peo - who have suffered injustice at the candidate who has expressed inter- jin, factory worker Wang Zhong - ple’s Congresses.” Almost all the hands of the communist state and est,” he said. “But if you campaign xiang has been trying to get on the candidates will be Communist Par - spend much of their lives seeking with a high profile, with people voic- ballot for a decade. But his social ty members, but a few people have redress. ing loud support for you online or media accounts were closed down put their names forward to stand “When there are problems, you on the street, then you cannot be by the authorities when he started as independents. can’t find your local representative elected, no matter what.” to campaign in 2011. this year he Anyone without a criminal re - —they keep their office address and the idea of inviting candidates was barred from even collecting his cord is theoretically allowed to stand phone number secret,” said orga- from outside the party to participate nomination papers and detained for at the local level. In practice, inde- nizer ye Jinghuan, 64. “So we want in local elections sprang up in the trying to leave the house. pendent candidates face police ha - to become representatives our- aftermath of the Cultural Revolu - “they are waiting for me down- rassment and intimidation. Most will selves. We want to do good things tion, the traumatic decade of violent stairs,” he said by telephone, “and simply be blocked from running. for citizens. For example, we want mob rule unleashed by Mao Ze - I can’t go outside.” the Communist Party says the to solve traffic problems in Beijing.” dong. Chinese society had been Wang’s aging parents are wor- People’s Congress system stands they want to join the lowest, rav aged, and there was a sense ried about him, but he insists they at the heart of the “people’s demo- most local People’s Congress. But the country needed an injection of should be proud: He is, he claims, cratic dictatorship.” Liu and hun- even at this level of representation, dem ocracy, Hu Ping, who won a the only independent candidate in dreds of other people are experi- the party clearly senses a threat: seat in 1980 as a graduate student a city of 15 million people. SATURDAY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 13, 2016 The CAMBODIA DAILY 7 - - 8 The Cambodia daily satuRday-sunday, novembeR 12-13, 2016 InternatIonal Civil Rights a Concern on Second Day of Anti-Trump Rallies ReuteRs the protesters to give Trump a WashINgToN/NEW yoRk - Demon- chance once he is sworn in to of- strators took to the streets across fice in January. the U.s. for a second day on Thurs- “I hope that people get it out of day to protest against Donald their systems...but then they give Trump’s presidential election vic- this man that was just elected very tory, voicing fears that the real es- historically and his new vice presi- tate mogul’s triumph would deal a dent an opportunity to govern,” blow to civil rights. spicer told MsNBC. on the East Coast, protests took In san Francisco, more than 1,000 place in Washington, Baltimore, high school students walked out of Philadelphia and New york, while classes Thursday morning to march on the West Coast demonstrators through the financial district carry- rallied in los angeles, san Fran- ing rainbow flags representing the cisco and oakland in California, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgen- and Portland, oregon. der communities, Mexican flags The protests were for the most and signs decrying Trump. part peaceful and orderly, although Reuters Civil rights groups and police re- there were scattered acts of civil dis- Demonstrators protest in downtown Los Angeles following the election ported an uptick in attacks on mem- obedience and damage to property. of Republican Donald Trump as US president on Thursday. bers of minority groups, some by Protesters threw objects at po- cessful presidential election. Now Rudy giuliani, the former New people claiming to support Trump. lice in Portland and damaged cars professional protesters, incited by york City mayor and a high-profile There were also reports of Trump in a dealership lot, the Portland the media, are protesting. Very Trump supporter, called the demon- opponents lashing out at people Police Department said on Twit- unfair!” Trump tweeted on Thurs- strators “a bunch of spoiled cryba- carrying signs supporting him. ter. some protesters sprayed graf- day night. bies” in an interview with Fox News. More anti-Trump demonstra- fiti on cars and buildings and Police pitched security barri- Republican National Commit- tions were planned for saturday smashed storefront windows, me- cades around two Trump mar- tee spokesman sean spicer urged and sunday. dia in Portland said. quee properties that have become “Many in crowd trying to get an- focal points of the protests—his archist groups to stop destroying newly opened Pennsylvania av- Riots, Demolitions Leave 30K property, anarchists refusing. oth- enue hotel in Washington and the ers encouraged to leave area,” the high-rise Trump Tower in Man- department tweeted after declar- hattan, New york, where he lives. Homeless in Lagos, Nigeria ing the demonstration a riot. about 100 protesters marched ReuteRs rows of shanty buildings had been The demonstration continued from the White house, where lagos, Nigeria - some 30,000 resi- burned down. some were still into Friday morning as Portland Trump had his first transition dents of the Nigerian megacity la- burning. police arrested a handful of pro- meeting with U.s. President gos have become homeless be- Bulldozers escorted by police testers and used pepper spray and Barack obama on Thursday, to cause of state-ordered demolitions arrived late on Wednesday to raze rubber bullets to try to disperse the Trump International hotel and riots among slum dwellers the makeshift housing, JEI said in the crowd, the department said. several blocks away. competing for jobs and space, res- a statement. It published videos at least 35 were arrested in a at least 200 people rallied there idents and a rights group said on showing people fleeing in boats, an protest in downtown los angeles, after dark, many chanting “No Thursday. account confirmed by residents. where demonstrators blocked hate! No fear! Immigrants are wel- The violence highlights the chal- “Police came at 11 p.m. and or- traffic and sat in the street, local come here!” and carrying signs lenges of a rapidly rising population dered us to go. We left by boat,” media reported. with such slogans as “Impeach unable to provide enough jobs and said a worker called John, who said Dozens in Minneapolis marched Trump” and “Not my president.” housing for its 180 million people. he had fled with his family after onto Interstate 94, blocking traffic in “I can’t support someone who Many end up trying to migrate to their house had been destroyed. both directions for at least an hour supports so much bigotry and ha- Europe by boat from lawless libya. “We have nowhere to go now.” as police stood by. a smaller band tred. It’s heart-breaking,” said Joe Nigeria is africa’s largest econo- lekki is a prime site for inves - of demonstrators briefly halted traf- Daniels, 25, of suburban alexan- my, but its economy has slumped, tors, who have been building luxu- fic on a busy los angeles freeway dria, Virginia. oil revenues fell and hard currency ry apartments, skyscrapers and before police cleared them. Two Trump supporters stood reserves dwindled, forcing the clo- waterside restaurants, attracting Baltimore police reported that off to the side carrying signs read- sure of plants unable to import raw poor Nigerians and workers from about 600 people marched through ing: “all We are saying is give materials. Every day, thousands of Benin Republic. the downtown Inner harbor area, Trump a Chance.” villagers head to lagos, the coun- In august, the lagos state gov- with some blocking roadways by Trump’s critics worry that his try’s commercial capital, seeking ernment gave residents who lacked sitting in the street. Two people often-inflammatory campaign rhet - work in a city of 23 million. building permits two weeks to were arrested. oric about immigrants, Muslims, a spokeswoman for lagos po- move out of lekki and other up- In Denver, a crowd that media es- women and others—combined lice said officers had arrested sev- market districts. JEI said officers timated to number about 3,000 gath- with support from the ku klux klan eral people for setting on fire had gone ahead with demolitions ered on the grounds of the Colorado and other white supremacists— makeshift houses in the affluent despite a court order to stop such state capitol and marched through could spark a wave of intolerance lekki island district. she denied plans pending a hearing. downtown in one of the largest of against minorities. claims by a lagos-based rights The lagos state government Thursday’s events. hundreds dem - Taking a far more conciliatory group, the Justice and Empower- could not be reached despite calls onstrated through Dallas. tone in his acceptance speech early ment Initiatives, that the police to the governor’s press secretary. Thursday’s gatherings were Wednesday than he had at many of had demolished buildings. The overcrowding in lagos generally smaller in scale and less his campaign events, Trump vowed Trouble started when riots looks likely to continue. By 2050, intense than Wednesday’s, and to be a president for all americans. erupted this week between local Nigeria’s population is set to more teenagers and young adults again his campaign rejected a klan slum settlers and job seekers from than double to 400 million, mak- dominated the racially mixed newspaper endorsement this Benin Republic, a poor nation lo- ing it the world’s third most popu- crowds. month, saying Trump “denounces cated just west of lagos, residents lous nation after China and India, “Just had a very open and suc- hate in any form.” told a reporter at the scene, where according to U.N. estimates. satuRday-sunday, novembeR 12-13, 2016 The Cambodia daily 9 InternatIonal At Least 4 Dead in Attack on German Consulate in Afghanistan ReuteRs the shock.” men were killed. berlin/mazar-i-sharif, afghan- noor mohammad faiz, the head Germany, which heads the istan - a Taliban suicide bomber doctor in mazar-i-sharif provincial naTO-led resolute support mis- “The city is still recovering rammed a truck packed with ex- hospital, said four bodies and 120 sion in northern afghanistan, has plosives into a wall around the wounded, most hurt by flying glass, about 850 soldiers at a base on the from the shock.” German consulate in the northern had been brought to the hospital. outskirts of mazar-i-sharif, with —Abdul RAzAq qAdeRi, afghan city of mazar-i-sharif, kill - Qaderi said German troops had also another 1,000 troops coming from deputy police chief ing at least four civilians and shot two men on motorcycles who 20 partner countries. wounding scores, officials said. did not comply with orders to stop. The explosion occurred about The attack highlighted the se- a foreign ministry spokesman an hour before midnight local time, naTO’s quick reaction protection curity problems spreading across in berlin said all German employ- a spokesman for the German mili- force intervened, fighting was over afghanistan in recent months, un- ees of the consulate general were tary joint forces command in Pots- by the early hours of the morning, derlining one of the most intract - safe and uninjured. dam said. said sayed Kamal sadat, police able foreign policy challenges that The Taliban claimed responsi- Witnesses reported sporadic chief of balkh. will face U.s. President-elect Don- bility for the attack, saying it was in gunfire from around the consulate at least one suspect was arrest- ald Trump when he takes office retaliation for naTO airstrikes and said the huge blast had shat- ed from the area of the explosion, next year. against a village near the northern tered windows in a wide area officials said. a naTO spokesman said the ex- city of Kunduz last week in which around the compound. The naTO spokesman said at plosion late on Thursday had more than 30 people were killed. “it was a prepared attack for least one car packed with explosives caused “massive damage” to the The islamist movement’s spokes - which we made all arrangements,” had been driven into the high outer building, shattering windows as man, zabihullah mujahid, said by mujahid said. “as per our plan, wall surrounding the consulate, but much as 5 km away. heavily armed telephone that heavily armed fight- first a suicide bomber driving an authorities were investigating if a attackers followed up the initial blast, ers, including suicide bombers, had explosives-laden vehicle rammed second car had been involved. battling with afghan and German been sent “with a mission to destroy the main building of the consulate The heavily protected consulate security forces late into the night be- the German consulate general and and that enabled other fighters to is in a large building close to the fore the attack was suppressed. kill whoever they found there.” move in and kill all the foreigners blue mosque in the center of “The extent of damage to the more than 30 people, many of there.” mazar-i-sharif, where the indian city is huge,” said abdul razaq them children, were killed last he said dozens of German sol- consulate was also attacked by Qaderi, deputy police chief of week when U.s. aircraft carried diers and intelligence personnel militant gunmen earlier this year. balkh province. “This kind of an out airstrikes in support of afghan were killed in the attack, although a crisis task force was set up in attack, bringing a truck full of ex- and U.s. special forces who came the Taliban often exaggerate casu- berlin and German foreign min- plosives and blowing it up in the under attack during a raid against alties caused by its operations. ister frank-Walter steinmeier was city, had never happened before. suspected Taliban militants threat- after afghan special forces, receiving continual updates, the “The city is still recovering from ening Kunduz. Two U.s. service- German security personnel and foreign ministry spokesman said. 10 The CamBodia daily satuRday-sunday, novembeR 12-13, 2016 Business Asia Thinks Trump Is Not Serious About Scrapping Trade Deals By Simon Denyer Hyundai and its affiliate Kia both anD anna FiFielD have car plants in the U.S., but they the Washington post still shipped more than 800,000 ve - beijing - Donald Trump could not hicles there last year. have been clearer in his election in japan, the government pressed campaign: China is cheating the ahead with its plan to ratify the U.S. out of millions of jobs and will TPP deal. Prime Minister Shinzo be forced to behave, through dra- Abe had been trying to have the matically higher tariffs if necessary. Diet approve the deal before the And the Trans-Pacific Partner - U.S. election, apparently hoping ship, an ambitious trade deal in - that a pact ratified by the second- volving a dozen Pacific Rim coun- biggest member would be hard- tries, would represent “the death er to renegotiate. He finally suc- blow” for U.S. manufacturing, ac - ceeded in getting the approval cording to Trump. The first pledge of the lower house on Thursday in his seven-point plan to rebuild afternoon. the U.S. economy is to withdraw The deal is a key part of Abe’s from that deal. plan to revive japan’s lackluster Yet in China and around Asia Reuters economy and force through struc - on Thursday, it was almost as if President-elect Donald Trump speaks at his election night rally in tural reforms. The TPP was not Manhattan, New York. Trump’s U.S. presidential election discussed when Abe had a 20- victory hadn’t happened. ments here could be dramatically in Seoul, there was mounting minute phone call with Trump on The lower house of japan’s par- disrupted by a trade war between concern that Trump might demand Wednesday, aides said, and they liament went ahead and ratified the two nations, also pointed out the scrapping and renegotiating said japan was hoping U.S. Presi - the TPP, while the japanese stock that campaign commentary was of the South Korea-U.S. trade deal dent President barack Obama could market rose nearly 7 percent, more not government policy. that took effect almost five years push the deal through Congress than erasing the previous day’s de - “The president-elect will get ago—although there was no men- before the end of the year. clines. Shares in China rose, too, absolutely nothing done and cre- tion of trade issues in South Korea’s Abe will meet Trump in new up more than 1 percent to recoup ate much uncertainty if he carries readout of a telephone call be tween York next week, stopping there earlier losses, and the Communist through with his campaign rhet o - President Park geun-hye and on his way to the Asia-Pacific eco - Party argued that the big picture ric on trade and China,” said james Trump on Thursday. nomic Cooperation meeting in of Sino-U.S. relations would not Zimmerman, chairman of the Amer - “i am with you,” the presiden- Peru. change. ican Chamber of Commerce in Chi - tial blue House quoted Trump as junichi Sugawara of the Mi zu - “After all, election language is na. “The president-elect and his telling Park. “We will all be safe ho Research institute said japan still election language,” the party team will quickly realize that it’s together.” was still uncertain what to make newspaper, the People’s Daily, said important to work with China, government officials have been of Trump’s campaign pledges on in an editorial that argued that ex - giv en that our two economies are trying to play down fears about trade. panding trade relations had proved more and more interdependent and the deal, arguing that Trump would “There’s no doubt that he’ll pur - beneficial to both countries. integrated.” not be willing to take such a grave sue policies that are more protec- “Rational people realize that Such optimistic commentary al - step with a major military ally. tionist,” Sugawara said. “Some after decades of development, so emerged from the british busi- The Korea economic Research people wonder if Trump will pro- economic and trade cooperation ness community after the U.K.’s institute recently estimated that pose a bilateral free-trade agree- has become the brightest spot in referendum vote to withdraw from South Korea would lose $30 bil- ment instead of TPP. japan is look - Sino-U.S. relations.” the e.U.: The government, some lion over the next five years if the ing for clues in the dark.” Several Chinese economic and business leaders argued, would U.S. ripped up the free-trade deal, in China, the American Cham - trade experts took a similar view. not be so stupid as to withdraw with the automobile industry tak- ber of Commerce also is still hop- Following through on a threat to entirely from the european sin- ing almost half the brunt. ing for the TPP to be approved impose tariffs of up to 45 percent gle market. Yet five months later, even if Trump does not take before Obama leaves office, argu- on goods from China would be just such a withdrawal, known as that step, analysts in Seoul say a ing that the deal would set a high “unrealistic,” said Tu Xinquan, di - Hard brexit, looks increasingly Trump administration will be more bar for trade in Asia and ultimate- rector of the China institute for likely. protectionist, a huge concern for a ly encourage China to open its WTO studies at the University of Similarly, some experts insist country that relies on exports of own markets and treat foreign international business and eco - that Trump’s promises to raise tar - products such as Samsung phones companies more fairly if it wants nomics in beijing. iffs and launch a fusillade of anti- and Hyundai cars. to join. “Trump is a businessman, and dumping cases against China—as he’s not that stupid,” he said. well as to stop any further discus- cambodia securities exchange Those sentiments were echoed sion of the TPP—cannot simply be Friday, November 11, 2016 by experts at gavekal Dragonom - written off as rhetoric. Index Value Change Open High Low Volume ics in beijing, who argued that tariffs “His repeated call for building a CSX 326.31 +2.31 324 326.31 323.23 96,537 would harm the very people Trump wall against Mexico or repeal the Stock Value Change Open High Low Volume had vowed to defend—working- Affordable Health Care Act could PPWSA 4,180 +40 4,120 4,180 4,120 96,537 class U.S. consumers—and spark be tough to carry out,” wrote Deb - Grand Twins 2,670 0 - 2,670 2,670 0 retaliation from China that would orah elms, executive director of PPAP 5,300 0 - 5,300 5,300 0 PPSP 2,710 +30 - 2,710 2,710 0 hurt U.S. businesses. the Asian Trade Center in Singa - “This makes it an empty bluff, pore, in a blog post. “but his room foreign exchange one that beijing has doubtless al - for maneuver on trade, by contrast, ready seen through,” they wrote is much greater and could allow ¥/US$ ...... 106.482 Sing$/US$ ...... 1.4091 £/US$ ...... 0.7901 Euro/US$ ...... 0.9211 in a client note. him to show results to his support - AU$/US$...... 1.3165 SKoreaW/US$ ...... 1,167.19 The U.S. business community ers within the first 100 days of his HK$/US$ ...... 7.7566 ThaiB//US$ ...... 35.31 in China, whose massive invest- administration.” SwissF/US$ ...... 0.9877 Riel/US$ ...... 4,025 SATuRDAy-SuNDAy, NOVEMBER 12-13, 2016 The Ca mbo d ia d a il y 11 o pinio n President-Elect Trump Should Reassure US Allies in Asia Ed i t o r i a l Meanwhile, Trump advisers inaction when China seized Scar- President Bill Clinton’s commit- THE WALL STREET JOu RNAL Alexander Gray and Peter Navar- borough Shoal from the Philip- ment to help China isolate Taiwan. ill a President Donald ro laid out a positive vision for Asia pines in 2012, they argue, led to Most critically, it will defend the Trump let U.S. allies in policy in the November 7 issue of Philippine President Rodrigo Du - right of free navigation through W Asia fend for them- Foreign Policy magazine. They terte’s court ship of Beijing. the South China Sea, which China selves in the face of a rising China, deride the administration of U.S. A Trump administration, they claims as its historical waters. or will he join them to curb Bei- President Barack Obama’s “pivot suggest, will push back against To back up its Asian alliances, jing’s ambitions? As a candidate, to Asia” as “talking loudly but car- China’s efforts to bully its neigh- Gray and Navarro say, the U.S. Trump and his advisers sent out rying a small stick.” Washington’s bors. It will repudiate former U.S. should return to former U.S. Pres- conflicting signals. As president- ident Ronald Reagan’s mantra of elect, he needs to move fast to de- “peace through strength.” That liver a message of U.S. reassur- requires the end of sequestration ance and resolve. for the defense budget and expan- In April, Trump alarmed Japan sion of the U.S. Navy toward a and South Korea with a sugges- goal of 350 ships. tion that they “would in fact be bet- That’s sensible, but Trump and ter off if they defend themselves his advisers underestimate the dif- from North Korea” with their own ficulty of maintaining the Pax nuclear weapons. Americana without a policy to pro- Both countries were already mote the region’s prosperity. Chi- nervous about the U.S. commit- na has become the largest trade ment to retaliate in the event of a partner of most East Asian nations nuclear attack by the North. and is not shy about using that Trump’s statement exacerbated leverage. those fears and probably embold- The Trans-Pacific Partnership, ened Pyongyang. which Trump promised to cancel South Korea especially had rea- on the first day of his presidency, son to feel aggrieved since it would open markets for U.S. com- agreed this year to join a U.S. mis- panies and create jobs at home. sile defense system despite diplo- Equally important, it would bind matic and economic pressure together U.S. allies and potential from China. South Korean Presi- allies in a more open system op- dent Park Geun-hye took the po- posed to the cronyism and money litically risky decision to start intel- diplomacy practiced by Beijing. ligence sharing with former colo- The Ca mbo d ia d a ily Trump also promised to pun- nial master Japan, as requested by Bernard Krisher, Publisher ish China for unfair trading prac- the U.S. Seoul has also markedly Deborah Krisher-Steele, Deputy Publisher tices at the start of his presidency. He should know that such unilat- increased its defense spending in Colin Meyn, Editor-in-Chief recent years. Contrary to what Jodie DeJonge, Managing Editor eral moves could hasten con- Trump suggested during the cam- Chhorn Chansy, News Editor frontation with Beijing and would paign, South Korea also helps foot Michael Dickison, Deputy Managing Editor carry substantial risks of retalia- the bill for U.S. troops, to the tune tion and a global recession. Van Roeun, Senior Editor of $900 million a year. The Obama administration got Japan is also spending more on Barton Biggs, Editor Emeritus; Isobel Souster, Night Editor; Michelle Vachon, Feature Editor; many things wrong in foreign pol- defense, although in the long run it Hannah Hawkins, Weekend Editor; Aisha Down, Sonia Kohlbacher, Brendan O'Byrne, Ben icy, but it did understand that the needs to expand military spending Paviour, Zsombor Peter, Janelle Retka, Saing Soenthrith, Laurence Stevens, Matt Surrusco, George U.S.’s security in the 21st century well beyond its current 1 percent Wright, Associate Editors; Buth Kimsay, Kuch Naren, Khuon Narim, Sek Odom, Aun Pheap, will depend in large part on the of GDP. 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With the in - the most significant tech policies of The forecast comes as a deep overturn net neutrality could be ternet now a dominant communi- the 21st century, all but erasing blow to Silicon Valley and the tech met with a lawsuit filed by support- cations network that allows Ameri - President Barack Obama’s internet industry, many of whose execu- ers of the rules. cans to find jobs, seek education agenda and undoing years of effort tives had openly backed Trump’s Under the current net neutrality and conduct commerce, that plat- by lawmakers, tech companies and Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, in rules, which were upheld by a court form needed to be protected from consumer advocates to limit the the race for the White House. in a separate legal proceeding this anticompetitive behavior, regula- power of large, established corpo- “I am surprised and disappoint- year, it is illegal for internet pro - tors warned. That many Ameri- rations, analysts say. ed,” said Steve Case, the co-founder viders such as Comcast and AT&T cans have only a couple of choic- In particular danger are key ini- of AOL—even as other leaders, to put up barriers to the websites es at best has made the FCC’s tiatives of the Obama years, includ- such as Box CEO Aaron Levie, said consumers want to reach. Provid - mission more urgent, its Dem o - ing net neutrality and a pivotal se - they hoped Trump had been lying ers cannot block or slow videos, for cratic chair man, Tom Wheeler, ries of internet privacy regulations about his proposed policies. Levie instance, in order to favor email traf- has said. that came along with it. has been an outspoken crit ic of fic. And they cannot demand spe- “That is what economists call a “Net neutrality has a big target Trump, saying his economic agen- cial payments from website opera- duopoly,” Wheeler said in a 2014 on its back,” said Robert Kaminski, da risks undermining innovation in tors just so that the sites’ content speech. a telecom analyst at Capital Alpha technology and transportation. can reach internet users. Wheeler and the commission’s Partners. It’s unlikely Trump was mislead- The FCC’s newly passed priva- two other liberal commissioners During the campaign, Trump ing the public, according to policy cy rules, meanwhile, force internet rammed the policies through over vowed to “eliminate our most intru - and business analysts. The new ad - providers to give consumers a say stiff Republican opposition. sive regulations” and “reform the ministration, they say, will instead in how their most sensitive person - Trump is expected to appoint entire regulatory code.” He has sin- delete from history the Federal al data is used and shared. As pro - next year a Republican FCC chair gled out net neutrality as a “top Com munications Commission’s un - viders increasingly realize their who could vote to roll back Wheel- down power grab,” predicting it precedented regulations for inter- business depends on more than er’s decisions. would allow the government to cen - net providers. An agency spokes - simply selling internet access, many Democrats could attempt to sor websites. person declined to comment. have moved to collect and analyze mount a defense by seeking con- Congressional Republicans have At first, Trump’s FCC may sim- their customers’ app usage, brows - gressional legislation that would taken aim at net neutrality as well, ply decide not to enforce the rules. ing history, mobile location and enshrine the principles, if not the setting the stage for a concerted ef - But soon they would take formal other information in order to sell language, of the net neutrality rules fort by Trump and his House and steps to strike the rules from the targeted advertising. in federal law. Consumer advo- Senate allies to undermine the poli- books, said an FCC official who Both federal policies were con- cates, meanwhile, vowed to defend cy. And because the government’s spoke on condition of anonymity sidered landmark measures, be - the privacy regulations from attack.