Cambodia needs to recalibrate its relationships with the US and EU, or risk becoming overly reliant on China.
In Cambodia, the average loan size is now among the highest in the world, with around 2 million borrowers owing a record US$2.8 billion. It’s not a healthy situation, with experts warning of a bubble in the Southeast Asian nation of 16 million. Loan demands from Cambodia's banking industry had surged by 20.1 percent in 2018 said a central bank's annual report.
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