Prime minister gives graduates class in geopolitics 101

Amid a dour assessment of the current geopolitical landscape, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday warned that only bad things follow when long-ruling strongmen are overthrown. In the lead-up to last year’s national elections, which Mr. Hun Sen’s ruling CPP officially won amid reports of widespread fraud and irregularities, the prime minister repeatedly brushed off suggestions that he might go the way of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein or Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi and Tunisia’s Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, two rulers swept aside by the Arab Spring. …

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