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President Donald Trump said connected Friday (December 12, 2025) that Thailand and Cambodian leaders person agreed to renew a truce aft days of deadly clashes had threatened to undo a ceasefire the US medication had helped broker earlier this year.
Mr. Trump announced the statement to restart the ceasefire successful a societal media posting pursuing calls with Thailand Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet.
"They person agreed to CEASE each shooting effectual this evening, and spell backmost to the archetypal Peace Accord made with me, and them, with the assistance of the Great Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim," Mr. Trump said successful his Truth Social posting.
Thailand and Cambodian officials offered nary contiguous remark pursuing Mr. Trump's announcement. Anutin, aft speaking with Trump but earlier the US president's societal media posting, said helium reiterated to Trump that Thailand's presumption was to support warring until Cambodia nary longer poses a menace to its sovereignty.
Mr. Trump, a Republican, said that Ibrahim played an important relation successful helping him propulsion Thailand and Cambodia to erstwhile again hold to halt fighting.
"It is my Honor to enactment with Anutin and Hun successful resolving what could person evolved into a large War betwixt 2 different fantastic and prosperous Countries!" Mr. Trump added.
The archetypal ceasefire successful July was brokered by Malaysia and pushed done by unit from Trump, who threatened to withhold commercialized privileges unless Thailand and Cambodia agreed. It was formalised successful much item successful October astatine a determination gathering successful Malaysia that Trump attended.
Despite the deal, the 2 countries carried connected a bitter propaganda warfare and insignificant cross-border unit continued.
The roots of the Thai-Cambodian borderline struggle prevarication successful a past of enmity implicit competing territorial claims. These claims mostly stem from a 1907 representation created portion Cambodia was nether French assemblage rule, which Thailand maintains is inaccurate. Tensions were exacerbated by a 1962 International Court of Justice ruling that awarded sovereignty to Cambodia, which inactive riles galore Thais.
Thailand has deployed pitchy fighters to transportation retired airstrikes connected what it says are subject targets. Cambodia has deployed BM-21 rocket launchers with a scope of 30-40 kilometres.
According to information collected by nationalist broadcaster ThaiPBS, astatine slightest six of the Thai soldiers who were killed were deed by rocket shrapnel.
The Thai army's northeastern determination bid said Thursday that immoderate residential areas and homes adjacent the borderline were damaged by BM-21 rocket launchers from Cambodian forces.
The Thai service besides said it destroyed a gangly crane atop a elevation held by Cambodia wherever the centuries-old Preah Vihear temple is located, due to the fact that it allegedly held physics and optical devices utilized for subject bid and power purposes.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly made the exaggerated assertion that helium has helped lick 8 conflicts, including the 1 betwixt Thailand and Cambodia, since returning to bureau successful January, arsenic grounds of his negotiating prowess. And helium is not been shy astir his tendency to beryllium recognised with a Nobel Peace Prize.
In an speech with reporters aboriginal connected Friday (December 12, 2025), Mr. Trump credited his medication with doing a "a precise bully job" with its propulsion to stem the renewed fighting.
"And we got it, I think, straightened retired today," Trump said arsenic helium hosted members of the 1980 US men's hockey squad successful the Oval Office. "So Thailand and Cambodia is successful bully shape."
Another ceasefire that Mr. Trump takes recognition for moving out, betwixt the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, is besides nether strain, conscionable aft the leaders of the African nations travelled to Washington to motion a bid deal.
A associated connection released by the International Contact Group for the Great Lakes expressed "profound concern" implicit the concern successful Congo's South Kivu region, wherever caller deadly unit blamed connected the Rwandan-backed M23 militia radical has exploded successful caller days.
The Great Lakes interaction radical — which includes Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and the European Union — has urged each sides "to uphold their commitments" nether the woody signed past week and "immediately de-escalate the situation." And Trump's internationally endorsed program to extremity the Israel-Hamas warfare successful Gaza is inactive not finalised and successful limbo, with sporadic warring continuing portion a captious 2nd signifier remains a enactment successful progress.
