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OPINION: The US is About to Launch an Open Attack on Global Trade Stability. Can China Defend the Existing Order?

AKP Phnom Penh, December 24, 2024 -- The threat by president-elect Trump to place 100 percent tariffs on any country that backs any other currency to replace the US dollar is an open attack on global trade stability. “Snap, crackle, pop.” No, it’s not the sound of an American breakfast cereal. It’s the sound of global trade and supply chain s...

Op-ed: The Genocide Convention and Cambodia: Lessons from the Past, Prevention for the Future

AKP Phnom Penh, May 20, 2024 — The Genocide Convention, formally the “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide”, is an instrument of international law that, for the first time ever, codified the crime of genocide. It firmly signifies the world’s commitment to “never again” — never again to allow such crimes as those c...

Opinion: Amnesty International Lies and Deceives International Public Opinion

AKP Phnom Penh, April 5, 2024 — As a citizen attached to a certain number of values, I cannot support that criteria regarding democracy and human rights are used for certain countries and not for others. For a long time, since 1979, Cambodia has been almost systematically the victim of this policy of double standard. I could cite a very large nu...

OPINION: China Seeks Harmony Not Hegemony

AKP Phnom Penh, December 14, 2023 -- “China has a continuous civilisation for 5,000 years,” Sun Yeli, Communist Party of China Central Committee member, said when launching the World Conference on China Studies in Shanghai. The challenge is to promote understanding of this continuity and the way it shapes current policy. Civilisation is mo...

OPINION: H. KISSINGER AND CAMBODIA

AKP Phnom Penh, December 01, 2023 -- Henry Kissinger, a former national security adviser and US secretary of state, has died. Brilliant intellectual, skillful diplomat, he leaves a very mixed record. On the positive side, we must remember the establishment of relations with the People’s Republic of China which allowed the in...

OPINION: A Paris Agreement that failed to bring peace

AKP Phnom Penh, October 23, 2023 -- 32 years ago, on October 23, 1991, three agreements were signed in Paris, officially called “Agreements for a comprehensive political settlement of the Cambodian conflict”. Some, who recall this event, refer to the “Paris Peace Agreement”. Others do not hesitate to assert that these agreements and the United N...

OPINION: How a local war between Israel and Hamas could become a global war ?

AKP Phnom Penh, October 12, 2023 -- Beyond the legitimate emotions aroused by the terrible suffering inflicted on innocent civilians on both sides, we must examine the possible repercussions of the current conflict and the risks of an extension of this conflict, through a sort of domino effect. This is why we must think beyond today and consider al...

OPINION: Should we ban crime reporting by the media?

AKP Phnom Penh, October 05, 2023 -- Recently, an eminent personality proposed that social networks and the media stop broadcasting images and reports on crimes committed. In a democracy, such proposal opens a very important debate. Because several fundamental questions are at stake: the values that circulate in society and the legacy of the re...

OPINION: A Tool to Destroy Cambodia

AKP Phnom Penh, October 04, 2023 -- For nearly 60 years The Far Eastern Economic Review was the most authoritative and influential newsmagazine of the Far East. It gradually disappeared between 2004 and 2009. With such a degree of intellectual honesty and rigor, it has never been replaced. The Washington-based news magazine trying to fill the...

Opinion: Cambodia and the conflict in Ukraine

AKP Phnom Penh, September 09, 2023 — Often, foreign observers do not understand Cambodia's position on this conflict in Europe. We are concerned by this war which has a global impact. As Samdech Techo Hun Sen rightly pointed out, “As the war continues, the world economy will still be impacted negatively, and everyone, whether Europe or even Camb...

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