CHINA-CAMBODIA
Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence

The Five Principles include mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, nonaggression, noninterference in others’ internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence.

Why would China invest so much in small states, such as those at the China-Africa Forum, that offer such small political, economic, and strategic return?

Why would China jeopardize its relationship with the United States, the former Soviet Union, Vietnam, and much of Southeast Asia to sustain the Khmer Rouge and provide hundreds of millions of dollars to postwar Cambodia?