 Kunyange zvazvo nyika idzi dzisina miganhu yakafanana, China yakava noukama hwenguva refu nenyika yeCambodia mune zvetsika uye zvokutengeserana. MaChinese 950,000 muCambodia anoumba 3-5 yevagari veCambodia, uye kunyangwe vakasarudzwa neKhmer Rouge nemaVietnamese, vakabudazve senharaunda inozivikanwa yebhizinesi. Cambodia yakatanga kuonana neChina kare kare muna 1421 AD mumakore okupedzisira oUmambo hweKhmer apo Ponhea Yat akatuma gurukota kuti ritange hukama hwepamutemo hwekudyidzana. China yakashandisa Cambodia sechinhu chinorwisa pesvedzero inodzvinyirira yeVietnam. Pakati pezana ramakore rechi20, Communist China yakatsigira vaMaoist Khmer Rouge vachipesana nehurumende yaLon Nol munguva yeCambodian Civil War uye ipapo kutora kwayo Cambodia muna 1975. Uyewo, Mao Zedong akanga arera ukama hwakanaka naMuchinda Norodom Sihanouk, uyo akarwisanawo naLon Nol uye akatsigira Khmer Rouge. Apo mauto eVietnam akapinda muCambodia muna 1978, China yakapa rutsigiro rukuru rwezvematongerwe enyika nerwechiuto kuKhmer Rouge. Muna 1979, Hondo Yokusunungura Vanhu yeChina yakatanga hondo pfupi yomuganhukurwisana neVietnam, muchidimbu kuityisidzira kuti ibve muCambodia. Musangano weParis weRunyararo weCambodia, kubva muna Chikunguru 1989 kusvika Gumiguru 1991, wakagadzirisa hukama hweCambodia neChina uye wakabatsira kubatanidzazve China mumakwikwi makuru emasimba akawanda. Pashure pokubva kweVietnam muCambodia uye ipapo sarudzo dza1993 dzakatsigirwa neUN dzakaziva ndokutsigira hurumende itsva yezvematongerwe enyika. 