
David J. Henderson McCartney
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David J. Henderson McCartney
@davidmaccartney
🇫🇷 🇰🇭 Photogrammetry, LiDAR & 3DGS, software designer and writer.
Phnom Penh - Cambodia Katılım Aralık 2012
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Thailand is canceling the 2001 bilateral MOU to abandon a proposed 50/50 revenue split with Cambodia, moving negotiations strictly to international maritime law (UNCLOS).
The Goal: Under UNCLOS, the maritime boundary would be redrawn straight down the middle, invalidating Cambodia's historical spatial claims.
The Result: The most resource-rich western zones of the Gulf would be legally reclassified as exclusively Thai territory. Thailand’s share of these highly lucrative oil and gas reserves jumps from 50% to 100%.
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#Cambodia is disappointed that #Thailand is considering terminating the 2001 MOU.
For over 25 years, the #2001MOU has been the agreed bilateral agreement for resolving Cambodia and Thailand’s overlapping maritime claims.
The 2001 MOU was entered into to allow both parties to jointly unlock the substantial petroleum resources thought to be located in the overlapping claims area. It is an agreed bilateral agreement to resolve Cambodia and Thailand’s overlapping maritime claims, under which they agree to negotiate a joint development treaty and a maritime boundary over different parts of the overlapping claims area.
If Thailand decides to terminate the 2001 MoU, it would mean rejecting the only bilateral agreement which constitutes a bilateral framework that both parties have relied upon for the past 25 years.
Whatever decision Thailand makes in relation to the MOU, Cambodia remains committed to resolving the countries’ overlapping maritime claims by peaceful means and in accordance with international law.
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A ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia was signed in December 2025. But for the Kui, an indigenous people divided across four countries, some of what was lost in the months before it may take far longer to recover. From @HRDstories mekongindependent.com/2026/05/thaila…
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Cambodia has already changed a lot since the first time I came in 1999, and this will continue. The old man is not eternal. For the moment, we should all join together and fight all these Chinese triads that operated in Miramar, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand! Do you know that Cambodia just deported 635 Thai scamers at the Poipet border? Yes, 635 Thai nationals, see the pictures...



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@davidmaccartney @KhaosodEnglish Cambodia will never change unless there is another civil war. We can come back to this again in the next 5-7 years and see who's closer to reality
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You state the obvious, everyone knows that, but let’s be very precise!
In the Mekong region’s scam ecosystem, organized crime syndicates like the Chinese 14K operate using a hub-and-spoke model:
Thailand (The Hub): The logistical and financial nerve center. Syndicates use it to launder money, transit trafficked victims, and supply the cross-border electricity and internet that physically power the operations.
Myanmar (The Walled Cities): Exploiting the civil conflict, syndicates partner with local militias to build massive, heavily armed autonomous zones right on the Thai border, operating entirely outside the law.
Laos (The City-State): Centered in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, which functions as a virtually independent criminal fiefdom under state-sanctioned leases.
Cambodia (The Corporate Fronts): Operations hide in plain sight within established cities and border towns, camouflaged as legitimate casinos, tech companies, or real estate developments.
Essentially, the triads keep their money and logistics in stable Thailand the laundromat, while pushing the actual "scam factories" and forced labor into the weaker legal jurisdictions of its three neighbors.
But hopefully this is changing, Cambodia is on the verge of a dramatic change, Myanmar junta will soon or later explode, Laos will follow the movement. So the real question is what will Thailand do when the flow of dirty scam money will dry out? A new coup d’état?
When the People's Party takes power and ends corruption in Thailand, then you will be allowed to lecture your neighbors; until then, you are just making a mockery of the world.
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@davidmaccartney @KhaosodEnglish Let me ask you this very simple question. Is there anywhere else on this planet that criminals has their own industrial estates right in the open?
We do not have that here and I hold that as self evident.
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There is a lot to do to enhance Cambodian society aseptically about corruption, but not about historical propaganda, which you are confusing with Thailand. Thailand, since its fasciste revolution of 1932, has been rewriting its history, or to be more precise, styling the Khmer history, making Thais believe that they are the builders of the Khmer temples. I invite you to study the history of the region.
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@davidmaccartney @KhaosodEnglish What taught in Cambodian school, is not what all the world knew bcuz government give them propaganda about Thailand all the time.
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- I think you are confusing corruption with democracy. Yes, Thailand is a more democratic country than Cambodia, but not less corrupted. Ask yourself the question: why was the province of Pailin (see the map bellow) not attacked and invaded by Thailand? Because your prime minister Anutin has good friends there with whom he shares sam dirty money.
- When a country occupies another country’s territories, it's called an invasion. Of course, it’s not a full-stage invasion, but still, Thailand occupied Cambodian territories. And if you need proof, yesterday Thais fired 5 shots at O'Smach, in front of a foreign military attaché supervising the Thai invasion.
- To sum up, there would have been much better ways to fight Chinese triads in the Mekong region than attacking Cambodia. Khmer and Thai people just desire to live in peace; fighting the Chinese triads will take time and at least one generation.

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@davidmaccartney @KhaosodEnglish Invading is a contested definition. I would not put Thailand on the same level as Cambodia in term of curruption.
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The problem is that Thailand is certainly as corrupt as Cambodia. Thailand should put its own house in order before arguing and invading its neighbors. I can tell you that all the casinos where Anutin and his clan have an interest in are still in full operation at the border in Cambodia. To get rid of the Chinese triads and their allies in Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos, it will take a very long time.
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@davidmaccartney @KhaosodEnglish When we capitulated the Hun clan then we can talk about peace
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@The_Q_Storm @KhaosodEnglish Yes, this is unfortunately not far from
the reality; the Pandora box is indeed open…
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Thailand has always invaded Cambodia during times of international war. Then they’d use the annexed territories as bargaining chips.
My intuition tells me that Iran and the British Empire were going to inevitably cause an energy squeeze through oil sanctions and start WW3. This would have given them the chance to conquer SEA again but Trump put a stop to that by starting on his own terms.
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@TomWrightAsia I see. I thought he was hiding in Israel. By the way, you are doing a tremendous god job. It started to move quite a lot in Cambodia. We will see how far it goes. We need a deep cleaning, but it will take time. Rome wasn't built in a day.
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Dubai authorities have frozen Mauerberger’s 38% stake in the $1.5B Janu Dubai hotel and residences — sources.
Tom Wright@TomWrightAsia
BREAKING: Civil War at Aman. A fight is brewing in the boardroom of the world’s most exclusive hotel chain. How did a global money laundering kingpin linked to human trafficking and crypto scams infiltrate the $3B Aman Group? The thread begins here. 1/6
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@BangkokPostNews il y a de l'eau dans le gaz
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Thailand has informed Cambodia of its intention to terminate the 2001 Memorandum of Understanding on overlapping maritime claims, with a formal proposal expected to be submitted to the Thai cabinet soon. Despite the planned cancellation, Thai Foreign Affairs Minister stressed that maritime boundary negotiations would continue under the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which he said offers a clearer and more widely accepted legal basis for managing overlapping maritime areas.
Listen to the story or get the full story in the 1st comment.
#BangkokPost #Thailand #Cambodia

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It is a visible sign of unilateral action, intimidation and an attempt to create a new reality on the ground inside Cambodian territory. SOURCE THE PHNOM PENH POST phnompenhpost.com/opinion/contai…
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Sure, and at the Messianic era, the non-Jew will “voluntarily" serve the Jews. Zechariah 8:23 - Isaiah 61:5. You also have the comments of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a Sephardic Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) non-European Jew : Israel is a "kingdom of priests" (Exodus 19:6). Meaning other nations are meant to provide the physical labor required for the world's upkeep, allowing Israel to fulfill its spiritual function.
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@davidmaccartney @RealAlexJones Are these the ones implementing Noahide
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