David Whitehouse cried foul about his difficulty in requesting University of Bristol for access to Cambodian Prime Minister Dr Hun Manet’s PhD thesis.
His open letter was published in The Diplomat magazine.
His action begs the questions: why did he want to access Dr Hun Manet’s thesis? Does he do the same to many other world leaders holding PhD? Why did he publish that open letter in the media?
And why The Diplomat published such an open letter? Have he and The Diplomat exhausted their means in finding Dr Hun Manet’s thesis? Was the open letter really a last resort?
The choice for an open letter is proof of David Whitehouse’s and The Diplomat’s malicious intention to publicly undermine the dignity of Cambodia’s new leader.
Everybody in Cambodia knows that Dr Hun Manet has a lot of open communication channels such as his Facebook page, YouTube, Telegram, Instagram, X (Twitter), and TikTok. If David Whitehouse and The Diplomat are real media professionals, they can also communicate with Cambodia’s Ministry of Information who oversees the press activity in Cambodia.
The open letter publicly revealed that while presenting themselves as having deep expertise on Cambodia, David Whitehouse and The Diplomat have no communication channels at all with local Cambodians.
David Whitehouse is perhaps an expert on Africa since he is Editor-at-Large of The Africa Report. He has written extensively on Africa covering many countries, including South Africa, Nigeria, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, and the list goes on with his more than a thousand articles. He is an expert with probably too much expertise as no writer can cover as many countries like him.
The tricky question is why an expert on Africa suddenly jumped to Cambodia? What is the connection?
There can be two connections that link him with Cambodia.
Firstly, he wrote a lot about debt and financial issues in Africa, and therefore there is an extension in the application of his knowledge on this area to Cambodia.
His article was quoted by David Hutt, the robotic anti-Cambodia writer, in a research article published by the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS), a think tank headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia.
This raised another question. Why a Slovakian institute is interested in Cambodia? How many Cambodians know where Slovakia is, and how many Slovaks know where Cambodia is?
In fact, this institute is the command center where David Hutt mobilizes attacks on Cambodia. He used an unknown Japanese professor named Takashi Hosoda to cook up information about Chinese naval base in Ream, Cambodia. Choosing a Japanese to write about foreign naval bases turned out to be a poor choice because the writer comes from a country that hosts 23 American military bases and nearly 50,000 American troops on its soil.
His second Cambodian connection is Sam Rainsy.
He is an author of a biography of a racist, xenophobic, extremist, an anti-monarchy politician. Sam Rainsy is known in Cambodia as “Bong Chea Tonsay” or “big brother is a speedy rabbit” because he proved to be the fastest runner abroad after the troubles, unrest and violence he helped to provoke.
Sam Rainsy is an old man trying to poke quarrels with courteous young Cambodian leaders like Samdech Prime Minister Hun Manet, who is as young as his children.
Sam Rainsy has publicly stated on several occasions that Dr Hun Manet’s academic achievements, including those at the West Point Academy and the University of Bristol, are of second tier or even bogus.
David Whitehouse’s action is therefore nothing other than an effort to prove Sam Rainsy’s narrative. He’s a Sam Rainsy mercenary.
In his shifting from Africa to Cambodia, it seems that Sam Rainsy is David Whitehouse’s only window of knowledge on Cambodia. Taking Sam Rainsy as a source of reference for modern Cambodia is anything but academic objectivity.
David Whitehouse’s and The Diplomat’s choice of communication through an open letter demonstrated their penchant for confrontational public humiliation of a country’s leader. This approach is already explicit about their malicious intent.
In the near future, it is expected that David Whitehouse, the anti-Cambodia predator, will launch further attacks on Cambodia’s leader through The Diplomat after reviewing Dr Hun Manet’s thesis, and everyone knows his intention as he is Sam Rainsy’s mercenary.
David Whitehouse, David Hutt and The Diplomat are part of the same group, who seek to humiliate and undermine the dignity of Cambodia and Cambodian leaders.
There is an African saying that goes, “if a dog bites you and you don’t bite it back, it will say you have no teeth.” But in Cambodia, we say, “if a dog bites you, we humans don’t bite dogs.”
Khmer Times
