ការប្រយុទ្ធជាមួយខ្មោច៖ ភាពភ័យស្លន់ស្លោចំពោះទណ្ឌកម្មយឺតយ៉ាវរបស់លោក ស.សុខា
Cambodia’s Interior Minister appears to have found an adversary in Washington: a sanctions list that no longer exists. It is not every day that a public official (or more precisely, his proxies) spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to convince Washington that he should not be treated as a threat actor. According to recent reporting, Cambodian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Sokha has done just that, hiring two U.S. law firms to prevent his designation under U.S. sanctions authorities. But the story has an additional strange twist. Sokha’s concern stems from his inclusion in the H.R. 5490 sanctions designation list, part of bipartisan legislation introduced in September 2025 to target Southeast Asia’s scam-compound economy. Section 7 of the legislation calls on the President to determine whether sanctions should apply to a list of implicated elite figures. However, at the House Foreign Affairs Committee markup in December, lawmakers rewrote section 7, removing the lis...