Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha said the opposition CNRP’s policy would be to build the wall – if only the country could afford it.
A Cambodian politician has called on the country’s leaders to take a leaf out of US president-elect Donald Trump’s book and build a wall along Cambodia’s 1,228-kilometre border with Vietnam.
Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha said the opposition CNRP’s policy would be to build the wall – if only the country could afford it.
Trump has pledged to build a “big, beautiful wall” along the 3,201-kilometre US-Mexican border to make crossings harder. Paid for by Mexico.
The Phnom Penh Post reported that failing the money to build a wall, a CNRP government would instead develop the border with markets, pagodas, schools and factories for Cambodians.
Over the past year, the government has deported thousands of Vietnamese and banned the leasing of land along the border for Vietnamese farms.
Government spokesman Phay Siphan claimed a wall along the border with Vietnam would be against the principle of ASEAN. “Building walls inside of ASEAN is a joke,” he said.