Mickey Bristow
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And so, of course, it reacts angrily whenever anyone does anything like this.
might actually affect going forward the relationship between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
They met just a couple of months ago in South Korea.
President Trump said they'd got on well, appeared to have a good meeting.
I'm sure this kind of act by President Trump will undermine that bonhomie to a certain extent.
I would have done anything to get the medicine for Khalil.
Well, it goes a long way back, right to the beginning of the last century, really, when France, which controlled Cambodia at the time, tried to form a border with Siam, which was what Thailand was known as at that time.
And the mapmakers, they travelled the area, they decided where the border should be, and they decided it should be on a watershed right near a contentious temple called Preva here.
And unfortunately, a couple of years later, when the mapmakers got down to writing this map, they did it in the wrong place.
So initially they placed this temple on the Thai side of the border.
Then when they made the map, it came onto the Cambodian side of the border.
So it all stems from a mistake in the map.
And from then, for the first few decades after that, Thailand didn't complain.
It was only subsequently it did.
But by that time, the International Court of Justice had said, no, actually, this temple is on the side of Cambodia.
I think that's exactly the case.
This is, as I said, a debate, an argument which goes back a century.
So why does it break out?
Why does it happen at certain points?
2008, for example, it broke out because Cambodia applied successfully for this temple to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.