Chinese has always been hospitable, Chinese make friends, do not care about each other's financial status, do not care whether the other party has fallen, as long as they are friendly to the Chinese, Chinese will treat him as a friend who pushes his heart, the so-called friend has good wine when he comes, and the enemy has a shotgun.
For friends' affairs, Chinese can pay desperately, even if they are inserted into the ribs.
This glorious tradition is vividly embodied in the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, and for a political figure who has fallen into distress, China not only did not fall for him, but instead tried its best to provide all resources, even if he had a home and could not return, let him make China his home.
<h1>The land of China as the base camp of the revolution</h1>
Historically, China was the center of Asia and even the world, and there were friends from all over the world active on Chinese soil, who took China as their foundation and used China's strength to develop their own causes.
In modern history, when the Japanese imperialists who were held hostage by militarism frantically invaded asian countries and brought deep suffering to the Asian people, China, because of its vast territory and the people's constant upsurge of anti-Japanese survival, has always allowed China to retain a breathing ground, and these places have also become the strongholds of Asian governments to resist Japan, because except for China, the land of these countries has all fallen, and there is no room for their survival at home.
In the case of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea has established a government-in-exile in China, and even this government-in-exile has been following the Chinese resistance forces; the founding leader of North Korea, who first joined the Chinese Communist Party, participated in anti-Japanese activities in northeast China, and later established the Korean people's power with the support of China.
Vietnam's founding leader, Ho Chi Minh, also participated in the fight against the French invaders in China, and later used China's strength to defeat the Japanese invaders in Vietnam. The reason why the leaders of these countries chose China as the rear of the anti-Japanese resistance was because of the Chinese people's character of accepting visitors from all over the world.
After the end of the Second World War, the imperialist forces withdrew from China, and in line with the principle of mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs, China would not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, but out of morality and the need to obtain international support, China would still help some weak and small countries. The leaders of Cambodia, a small southeast Asian country, were once deeply favored by China.
When it comes to Cambodia's relationship with China, we must start with Cambodia's history.
<h1>The ever-changing Southeast Asian country of Cambodia</h1>
Cambodia is located in the Indochina Peninsula, bordering Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, with a total population of about 16 million, and the country is mainly composed of Khmer ethnic groups.
Historically, Cambodia was a highly civilized country, with a unified kingdom established as early as the first century AD. In the 9th to 14th centuries, Cambodia entered the Angkor Dynasty and established the Angkor civilization, which is the most important period in Cambodian history.
Today, Angkor Wat, which is loved by the people of the world, originated from this period. Historically, Cambodia was small but not weak, and although it was invaded by Thailand and declined, it was still a powerful force active in Southeast Asia.
As early as the fourteenth century, the fleet of the former world hegemon Spain reached the Cambodian region, but was fiercely resisted by the Cambodian people, and the Spanish invasion ended in a fiasco.
In 1643, the Dutch East India Company also attempted to invade Cambodia, and the two sides broke out into the Khmer-Dutch War. Cambodia took the initiative to provoke war and then waged war against the Dutch armed forces that came to retaliate, resulting in a crushing Dutch defeat.
Since 1863, Cambodia has become a French protectorate, and to say that it is a protectorate is actually a French colony. Later, the Japanese invaded Southeast Asia, replacing France, and Cambodia became a Japanese colony.
In 1945, after the surrender of the Japanese army, France took over Cambodia again, but under the resistance of the Cambodian people, it gained independent status in 1953, and the following year, French troops withdrew from Cambodia.
<h1>Sihanouk became king</h1>
Sihanouk was born in 1922, also from an aristocratic background, the eldest son of the Cambodian royal family Norodom Sulamarit, with the blood of the Cambodian royal family flowing through his body, and his grandfather, the Cambodian king Sisowa Moniwang.
In 1941, the old king Sisowa Moniwang died, and for a time there was no master in the dprk, and the two factions of the DPRK and the CENTRAL were quarreling over the throne of Cambodia, both of which had royal blood and enjoyed the right to inherit the throne.
The French at that time, through the indochina regime controlled by their hands, allowed Sihanouk to inherit the throne. This was done because Sihanouk had the blood of two major powers, and the French also wanted to control Cambodia by controlling the young king.
In 1945, Japan invaded Cambodia, but by this time Japan had become the last of its mighty crossbows, no longer posed a threat to Cambodia, and Sihanouk, who had become king, declared Cambodia independent status. After Japan withdrew from Cambodia, the French made a comeback and once again turned Cambodia into their own colony.
When the Japanese came, they fled, and when the Japanese ran away, they came, and the French were really very good at opportunism.
After World War II, national independence became the universal consciousness of the people of the world, as the king of Cambodia Sihanouk naturally hoped that Cambodia could gain an independent status, he had studied in France, after returning to Cambodia, he fought for the independence of his own country, and with the efforts of all Cambodian people, Cambodia achieved independence status.
<h1>Relinquish the throne and get involved in politics</h1>
As a king, he was limited by the constitutional monarchy, which made Sihanouk very limited in politics, in order to facilitate his participation in politics, Sihanouk ceded his throne to his father, and he established a political party to participate in politics in this way. And with an overwhelming advantage, it has gained the right to speak in Cambodian politics.
After his father's death, Sihanouk assumed the new post of "head of state" and became the de facto ruler of Cambodia.
<h1>Due to the rebellion at home, he defected to China</h1>
Sihanoukville promoted socialism at home, and through the Non-Aligned Movement, Sihanouk kept Cambodia diplomatically neutral, allowing Cambodia to stand alone during the Cold War while receiving aid from both Eastern and Western countries.
But the situation in which Cambodia is located is doomed to cambodia is unlikely to be smooth sailing. In the 1970s, the United States launched the Vietnam War and invaded Vietnam, and Cambodia, a neighbor of Vietnam, adopted a policy of support for vietnam's communist party, which made the United States feel dissatisfied.
So, with the support of the United States, in March 1970, opposition forces within Cambodia took advantage of Sihanouk's visit to launch an armed coup d'état and gain control of Cambodia. After gaining de facto control, Prime Minister Lon Nol deposed Sihanouk and later sentenced him to death.
<h1>The desperate Sihanoukville was accepted by the Chinese</h1>
When there was a coup d'état at home, Sihanouk was visiting Europe, and when he was about to leave for Phnom Penh via China after his visit to Moscow, the Soviets told him what had happened in Cambodia.
As the head of a country, far away from the country, heard the news of his loss of power, Sihanouk cried bitterly on the plane, he was crying not only for the tragic cambodian people, but also for what he was about to face next, the country could not go back, Europe is not a place to stay for a long time, the desperate Sihanouk is helpless, fortunately, China on the way to him extended an olive branch.
After hearing about the coup in Cambodia, Premier Zhou extended an invitation to Sihanouk to stay in China first.
The plane flew to Beijing, and Sihanouk, who stepped out of the plane, was cordially received by the great man and Premier Zhou. At that time, the Chinese government said that it agreed to sihanouk and his family settling in Beijing.
A few days after arriving in Beijing, Premier Zhou spoke several times with Sihanouk, who asked China to support his own restoration efforts, and Premier Zhou agreed to his request. As a result, Sihanouk established the "National Coalition Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia" in Beijing.
The perverse actions of cambodia's domestic opposition were met with unanimous crusades by Sihanouk's supporters and opponents, and with the mediation of China and North Korea, Sihanouk decided on all forces within the United Nations to overthrow the Lon Nol regime.
China renovated 15 Dongjiaomin Lane as Sihanoukville's residence. Sihanouk followed Premier Zhou's advice and renamed it the "Head of State of Cambodia". Sihanouk immediately said that Chinese people are his friends!
To support Sihanouk's re-seizure of power in Cambodia, China has done much to not only provide a large number of weapons to Sihanouk supporters in Cambodia, but also personally transporting these weapons to Cambodia. Sihanouk has always kept all this in mind, and he once asked the great man how he would repay the support given by China. The great man smiled and said, "We are not arms dealers, and we do not want to provide you with weapons for profit."
The words of the great man are naturally a heartfelt promise, which is related to the policy of mutual non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries that China has pursued for many years.
China received and helped only a person who had lost his political power and had a home and could not return, and the perverse acts of the reactionaries in Cambodia were indeed unpopular, causing Cambodia to suffer deeply, and providing weapons for Sihanouk's supporters was a righteous act to safeguard justice on earth! Later, Sihanouk has always been grateful to China and has provided a lot of support for China's diplomatic cause.
With strong Chinese support, Sihanouk's supporters won the war. In April 1975, the Lon Nol puppet regime was defeated. Sihanouk's supporters invited him back to Cambodia to preside over the big picture.
Sihanouk, who was deeply helped by the Chinese, resigned to several leaders of the Chinese government. Before leaving Beijing, he wrote a poem praising Chinese's righteous deeds. The lyrics read: "Ah! Glorious and great China, I salute you, I love you from the bottom of my heart, and regard you as my second motherland! "
Although he returned to China and was nominally a monarch of a country, but had no real power, Sihanouk was repeatedly threatened with death, but thanks to the intervention of the Chinese government, he survived, and several of his sons and grandsons were also brutally killed. Later, at the first opportunity, he fled back to China again, only to be spared the fate of continued persecution.
Sihanouk is also a Talent in Cambodia, who voluntarily gave up the throne and participated in political activities, with the intention of building a democratic, rich and strong Cambodia. In international affairs, he is a staunch supporter of the Non-Aligned Movement and enjoys a certain status in Southeast Asia.
Text/Yu Xin