{"id":13068,"date":"2020-11-07T16:54:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T09:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cd-center.org\/?p=13068"},"modified":"2020-11-07T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T09:54:51","slug":"bilahari-kausikan-ignorance-of-history-and-precarious-support-for-pessimist-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cd-center.org\/kh\/bilahari-kausikan-ignorance-of-history-and-precarious-support-for-pessimist-realism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilahari Kausikan: Ignorance of  History and Precarious Support for Pessimist Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 dir=\"auto\">AUTHOR<\/h4>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Dr. Un Kheang, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University and Member of the Board of Directors at Cambodia Development Center.<\/p>\n<h4>ABOUT Commentary<\/h4>\n<p>In a webinar organized by ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute the former Singaporean top diplomat, Mr. Bilahari Kausikan, suggested that, if necessary, ASEAN may have to expel Cambodia and Laos from the regional association for their role as China\u2019s proxies. Mr. Bilahari went on to claim that close connection between Laos, Cambodia and China has not only undermined ASEAN\u2019s unity but could potentially bring Laos and Cambodia to their darkest periods of the 1970s. There have been many reactions to assertions made by Mr. Bilahari during that webinar. It suffices to opine on two points: his ignorance of historical facts and precarious support for pessimist realism.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cd-center.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/P124_20201107_V2IS18_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download in English<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUTHOR Dr. Un Kheang, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University and Member of the Board of Directors at Cambodia Development Center. ABOUT Commentary In a webinar organized by ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute the former Singaporean top diplomat, Mr. Bilahari Kausikan, suggested that, if necessary, ASEAN may have to expel Cambodia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[],"all_author":[],"class_list":["post-13068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-and-international-relations","category-social-issues-and-development"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bilahari Kausikan: Ignorance of History and Precarious Support for Pessimist Realism - Cambodia Development Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cd-center.org\/kh\/bilahari-kausikan-ignorance-of-history-and-precarious-support-for-pessimist-realism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bilahari Kausikan: Ignorance of History and Precarious Support for Pessimist Realism - Cambodia Development Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AUTHOR Dr. Un Kheang, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University and Member of the Board of Directors at Cambodia Development Center. 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