Cambodia

Lina's experience spans the civil society, humanitarian, peacebuilding, funding, government and international development sectors.

She has worked across different countries including the UK, Uganda, Kenya, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, bringing people together to challenge unequal systems and create meaningful change.

She's also involved in wider efforts to advance racial justice and equity in the sector, including through the hashtag Charity So White and the Racial Equity Index and serves as co-chair of Board Racial Diversity UK.

which works to improve racial diversity and inclusion in charity leadership and governance.

But crucially, the alliance between the Axis powers would remain a distant one, as Japan would, over the coming years, fight alone against the Allied powers in Asia, whilst Germany and Italy received little concrete help from the Japanese.

However, after the fall of France, an agreement was struck with Germany and the French Vichy government that France's colonies in Indochina, that were comprised of modern-day Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, could be occupied by Japanese troops in July of 1941.

The United States, however, protested against this move and, as a result, embargoed all exports of raw materials, including nearly 90% of Japan's oil supply, and refused to recommence exports until Japan withdrew from Indochina, meaning that Japan had to choose between further expansion to replace its lost imports of raw materials or retreat.

As hardline ultra-nationalists were now in charge, the decision was taken to continue with a policy of military expansion to the south that would inevitably threaten the United States' own colonies in the Philippines as well as Britain's imperial outposts in Hong Kong and Singapore.