Category: Article
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APEC 2025: Diplomacy, Trade, and the Art of Caution
The 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit offered a quiet but telling reflection of today’s fragile global trade environment. While it delivered no headline-grabbing agreements, the event’s symbolic gestures and careful diplomacy reveal the increasingly…
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Thailand Holds Clear Military Edge over Cambodia, Analysts Say
Thailand’s armed forces significantly outmatch those of neighboring Cambodia in manpower, equipment, and capability, according to multiple defense analyses, underscoring the imbalance in the latest border clashes. Thailand fields around 361,000 active-duty personnel—three times Cambodia’s…
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Thai-Cambodian Tensions Reflect Regional Rivalries and Historical Fault Lines
The outbreak of fighting between Thailand and Cambodia underscores how historical disputes, uneven military power, and great-power competition continue to shape Southeast Asia’s security landscape. The century-old border dispute, rooted in colonial-era mapping by France,…
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U.S. and China Support Rival Sides in Thai-Cambodian Conflict
The Thai-Cambodian border clashes have highlighted contrasting foreign alignments in Southeast Asia, with Thailand maintaining close military ties to the United States while Cambodia deepens its partnership with China. Thailand has been a U.S. treaty…
