Divided Cambodia in the Era of Sino-Soviet Detente: The Paris Conference and its BackgroundR. Strassner

ASIEN – Nr. 34 (1990) pp. 55–68

Divided Cambodia – a country which seems at first glance to have little in common with the problems of divided countries Korea, Germany or China. And yet Cambodia has had two governments for the past ten years. While it is possible to regard the division of Korea and Germany as an expression of East-West confrontation, the division of Cambodia is rather a demonstration of East-East conflict – the conflict between the USSR and China. The article describes the development of the Cambodian question in the era of Sino-Soviet detente and in particular the events of the Paris Cambodia conference in August 1989.