Just hours after returning to the White House in January 2025, US President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day suspension of US foreign aid, raising fears that Washington was preparing to end its long-term humanitarian commitments around the world.

One of the many countries affected by the aid freeze is Cambodia — a Southeast Asian nation that remains littered with landmines and unexploded ordinance, some of which goes back to US bombing of North Vietnamese guerrillas during the Vietnam War. This was followed by a deadly civil conflict and the rise of the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s, and then by the Vietnamese invasion and occupation, which lasted until 1989.

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Cambodia has received $208 million (€182 million) from the US to clear landmines since........

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