Of late, moreover, the ANS and KPLNF have felt compelled by their circumstances and pressures from the Chinese, Thais and others to consider entering into a negotiated arrangement for sharing power in Cambodia not only with their communist partners in the CGDK, the Khmer Rouge, but also with the communists of the Vietnamese-backed regime (whose army numbers at least 40, 000).
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