{"id":75646,"date":"2025-12-17T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/17\/a-visual-guide-to-the-historical-maps-and-temples-at-the-heart-of-the-thailand-cambodia-conflict"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:00:20","slug":"a-visual-guide-to-the-historical-maps-and-temples-at-the-heart-of-the-thailand-cambodia-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75646","title":{"rendered":"A visual guide to the historical maps and temples at the heart of the Thailand-Cambodia conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Border conflict has roots in colonial maps and long-standing \u2018sibling rivalry\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Thailand and Cambodia have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/24\/why-thailand-cambodia-border-clash-conflict\">locked in a border dispute<\/a> for more than a century, which exploded again in the summer of 2025. Peace efforts have had mixed results and fighting continues.<\/p>\n<p>A historical dispute over lines drawn on colonial maps is often used as a pretext for simmering nationalism. The two countries have had what one historian called a \u201csibling rivalry\u201d for decades, fanned by competing claims to the region\u2019s rich cultural heritage, including ancient temples in disputed areas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/17\/a-visual-guide-to-the-historical-maps-and-temples-at-the-heart-of-the-thailand-cambodia-conflict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border conflict has roots in colonial maps and long-standing \u2018sibling rivalry\u2019Thailand and Cambodia have been locked in a border dispute for more than a century, which exploded again in the summer of 2025. Peace efforts have had mixed results and fight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[361,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambodia","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75647,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75646\/revisions\/75647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}