Before US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Cambodia this week, the Pentagon had indicated that the talks wouldn’t yield “significant deliverables.” Despite some media predictions of a US-Cambodia rapprochement after years of testy ties, Cambodia’s elite politics impose limits to how far relations can recover. Austin’s visit to Phnom Penh came during a trip...

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