{"id":8271,"date":"2025-12-12T22:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/12\/12\/thailand-and-cambodia-agree-to-halt-fighting-trump-says-bbc\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:12:21","slug":"thailand-and-cambodia-agree-to-halt-fighting-trump-says-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/12\/12\/thailand-and-cambodia-agree-to-halt-fighting-trump-says-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand and Cambodia agree to halt fighting, Trump says &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p>US President Donald Trump has said the prime ministers of Thailand and Cambodia will halt fighting &#8220;effective this evening&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made the announcement after telephone conversations with the two leaders following deadly border clashes in recent days which have left at least 20 people dead and half a million displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul nor his Cambodian counterpart Hun Manet has commented.<\/p>\n<p>However, after his call with Trump earlier, Charnvirakul told a news conference that a ceasefire would only come about if &#8220;Cambodia will cease fire, withdraw its troops, remove all landmines it has planted&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p>In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said both leaders &#8220;have agreed to CEASE all shooting effective this evening, and go back to the original Peace Accord made with me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both Countries are ready for PEACE and continued Trade with the United States of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The long-standing border dispute escalated on 24 July, as Cambodia launched a barrage of rockets into Thailand, which responded with air strikes.<\/p>\n<p>After days of intense fighting which left dozens dead, the neighbouring South East Asian countries agreed to an &#8220;immediate and unconditional ceasefire&#8221; brokered by Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, tensions continued to build.<\/p>\n<p>This week, violence expanded into at least six provinces in north-eastern Thailand and five provinces in Cambodia&#8217;s north and north-west.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries have been been contesting territorial sovereignty along their 800km land border for more than a century, since the borders of the two nations were drawn after the French occupation of Cambodia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has said the prime ministers of Thailand and Cambodia will halt fighting &#8220;effective this evening&#8221;. Trump made the announcement after telephone conversations with the two leaders following deadly border clashes in recent days which have left at least 20 people dead and half a million displaced. Neither Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}