Greg Raymond
@GregoryVRaymond
Senior Lecturer, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, ANU. Researches SE Asia.
In this new article I investigate two research questions: firstly, whether small state hedging can be compatible with alliances, and secondly, what Thailand’s troubled alliance with the United States portends for regional order. @ANU_SDSC @ANUBellSchool tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Australia is deeply concerned by escalating tensions across the Thai-Cambodian border, including reports of injuries and loss of life. We urge both sides to de-escalate and resolve border issues peacefully.
Hun Sen has achieved something quite remarkable- unity across the left and right of the Thai political spectrum.
The People's Party has issued a statement strongly condemning what it describes as deliberate attacks by Cambodian forces on Thai civilians during recent border clashes. According to the statement, the cross-border assaults resulted in multiple civilian casualties—including…
Pleasure to offer some points on yesterday’s dramatic escalation along the Thai-Cambodia border for @ChannelNewsAsia @ANUBellSchool @ANU_SDSC youtu.be/Bjq539RNVgY
Amid escalating border tensions, Thailand’s foreign minister has arrived at the UN headquarters in New York as Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet calls for an emergency Security Council meeting over alleged Thai aggression. Link - thaienquirer.com/55479/thai-for… #Thailand #Cambodia…
Drone strikes come to the Indo-Pacific. A very unwanted development.
Cambodian forces have deployed tanks near Satta Som Mountain in Ban Phumsarol, Sao Thong Chai Subdistrict, Kantharalak District, Si Sa Ket Province. According to the Second Army Region, Thai forces have successfully neutralized at least two enemy armored vehicles in the area.…
The civilian death toll just today likely exceeds that which occurred over three years during the Thai-Cambodia Phra Viharn-Preah Vihear dispute 2008-2011.
The Education Ministry has closed 582 schools in Surin, Sisaket, and Buriram after BM-21 rockets fired from the Cambodian side hit residential areas, killing two students and injuring two others. The students were on their way home after schools had been ordered to close for…
This is interesting. The barbed wire was likely in response to the landmines that were placed yesterday injuring several Thai soldiers.
Cambodia’s Ministry of National Defense’s account of the development leading to the border clashes on July 24.
These civilian deaths are tragic and on the face of it, wholly unnecessary.
The Royal Thai Army has provided updates on Cambodia's attacks targeting civilians within Thai territory. It reported that nine civilians have been killed in Sisaket, Surin, and Ubon Ratchathani, with at least 14 injured as a result of these actions. The affected locations…
"challenges of a more ambitious Cambodia under PM Hun Manet"
The Ho Chi Minh City summit helped avert Cambodia from facing a future hostile two-front pressure simultaneously from Thailand and Vietnam. Meanwhile, ties between the latter two are stronger than ever, partly from the challenges of a more ambitious Cambodia under PM Hun Manet.
Situation Update on the Armed Conflict Between Thailand and Cambodia - Two BM-21 rockets struck a residential area in Kap Choeng District, Surin, injuring at least three civilians. One unconfirmed fatality has been reported. - A PTT gas station in Ban Phue, Kantharalak…
Thai F-16s have now been used. @SenatorWong @ASEAN need to seek a solution ASAP.
Clashes have since been reported at five other areas long the border. This could soon get out of control.
Thais now approving use of artillery at Ta Thom Muean. This brings things to the level of intensity reached in the Phra Viharn-Preah Vihear temple dispute 2008-2011. facebook.com/share/p/1CQRUS…
More escalation. Thai Army Area 2 command claiming Cambodian side has used BM-21 rockets without "care for local people". facebook.com/share/p/1BxNYY…
Resolution of Thai-Cambodia border dispute still some way off.
[Breaking] The Second Army Region has sealed all border checkpoints under its control with Cambodia, while the government expelled the Cambodian ambassador and recalled its envoy from Phnom Penh following another landmine blast that severely injured a Thai soldier near the…
Wow. Australia's ally attacking Europe for seeking to prevent illegal and harmful activities online and the spread of disinformation.
The new “values-based” foreign policy is increasingly zeroing in on Europe and platform regulation as key priority areas This type of rhetoric was previously reserved for the worst dictatorships. Now it’s deployed against allies
Police have raided suspected online scam centers in at least 6 provinces, following a government directive and a high-level meeting with PM Hun Manet – but major known compounds & politically connected elites remain untouched cambojanews.com/nationwide-rai…
Mostly hapless foreign nationals it would seem, and mostly for domestic politics. This will be more noteworthy if a figure like Senator Kok An or a high-level organiser like Chen Zhi is arrested.
Cambodia on Wednesday said that an order by Prime Minister Hun Manet for government bodies to crackdown on criminal cybercrime operations being run in the country had resulted in the arrest of more than 1,000 suspects so far this week. apnews.com/article/cyberc…
Ultranationalists are calling for the building of a wall separating #Thailand from #Cambodia, with the 3 disputed temples on the Thai side. These Thai netizens are escalating the already tense situation, and we now have lost a generation of Thais and Cambodians to mutual hatred.
Searing take on one of the Mekong's most kleptocratic regimes. But note that kleptocracy crosses borders in the Mekong's authoritarian security community: "Indeed, Thailand’s own elites are enmeshed with Cambodia’s so this knife of accountability will likely only cut so deep."
The Cambodian People's Party is a globally harmful criminal enterprise wrapped in a flag. It is time to abandon the illusion that it can be swayed by treating it like a normal trading or diplomatic partner. My latest @Diplomat_APAC. thediplomat.com/2025/07/moving…
In a new op-ed for @nytimes, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies @bartov_omer explains why he believes "Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people," something Israel denies: nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi… Back in December, I spoke with Professor Bartov about…