The aid is roughly equivalent to a year's worth of crude oil imports by Asean countries.
  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Asean

    • Myanmar, a complete shit mess and horror
    • Thialand run by ex military after a coup, and has a fealty to one of the richest assholes in the world as monarch
    • Laos, corrupt as fuck but maybe
    • Cambodia, jailed and imprisoned all the opposition, now run by the Son of and ex KR thug who killed the guy who was supposed to be PM
    • Philippines run by the son of the ex dictaror
    • Malaysia, maybe … but corrupt as fuck

    etc

    Japan does a fair bit of good NGO work there, good stuff like freshwater plants etc

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    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      From a cynical realpolitik perspective, Japan is investing, so to speak, on Asian countries so that if a war with China breaks out, Japan would have allies when the time comes.

      Although, as far as I know, Cambodia is a nominal ally of China because of the huge Chinese investments.