{"id":57015,"date":"2023-07-27T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/27\/cambodia-hun-manet-next-pm-profile-hun-manet"},"modified":"2023-08-22T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:22:08","slug":"will-cambodias-next-leader-be-able-to-step-out-of-his-fathers-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57015","title":{"rendered":"Will Cambodia\u2019s new leader be able to step out of his father\u2019s shadow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hun Manet has taken the reins from his authoritarian father, but it remains unclear whether he will continue the approach of stability at all costs<\/p>\n<p>Hun Sen, Cambodia\u2019s authoritarian leader who has ruled the country for almost four decades, has handed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/22\/who-is-cambodia-pm-hun-manet-hun-sen-son-transfer-of-power\">power to his son, Hun Manet<\/a>, in a historic transfer of power<\/p>\n<p>Under Hun Sen\u2019s rule, opposition figures were jailed or forced to flee the country, and independent media shuttered. The question now is whether this generational shift will bring any change.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/27\/cambodia-hun-manet-next-pm-profile-hun-manet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hun Manet has taken the reins from his authoritarian father, but it remains unclear whether he will continue the approach of stability at all costsHun Sen, Cambodia\u2019s authoritarian leader who has ruled the country for almost four decades, has handed po&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambodia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57740,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57015\/revisions\/57740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}