for many locals the sudden tourism boom in sihanoukville is a very mixed blessing people like sri german and business say they now feel like outsiders in their own home. from borno but it's terrible with all the chinese here they're so badly behaved they're going to let my pet nobody that are friends don't want to come here anymore there are too many chinese in just one year everything changed i'm a templemore the chinese have taken over our city how long now matter how much. it does. appear that a takeover is underway chinese construction projects are transforming for city. ville has practically vanished. workers materials and plans for new projects are all imported from china how did this happen. political scientist diviner of chang is one of the few cambodians willing to speak openly about the topic. and the chinese. government. says through certain. process it's not really transparent. we don't know much what. the chinese are here in force and locals are being crowded out we meet in the center of the city he used to run a small restaurant here but recently he had to give it up a chin