Mickey Bristow
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So that angered the Thais.
That led to a flare-up of the tension and just...
This year, it flared up again in July.
There was some tension before then, but essentially there's a lot of argument between the two major political families in Cambodia and Thailand.
I don't want to get too closely into that, but a conversation they had was leaked.
It made the Thai prime minister look weak.
She was forced to resign.
Also, there's domestic politics.
At the moment in Thailand, you've got a very weak government, weak in terms of parliamentary majority in Cambodia as well.
You have a government which has come under increasing pressure recently because a lot of scam centres, fraud centres have been identified as operating from their territory.
So both governments have reasons to to sound tough and to continue the fighting.
As you mentioned, President Trump there, yeah, he said that he had no doubt that peace would prevail.
Those were the words he used.
Well, it hasn't lasted for two months.
Perhaps they've taken their eye off the ball, but if you look at President Trump and the kind of diplomacy he engages in, he likes to do deals and then move away.
And in any case, this deal was always going to be very, very fragile.
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They were launched by the Chinese Eastern Command of the People's Liberation Army. They involved air, land and sea forces, also the rocket forces targeting targets on land and in sea around Taiwan. Most importantly, I think for Taiwan, they're practicing blockading the island from all directions. Taiwan's a very small island. It's a trading nation, a lot on trade for the import of food.
They were launched by the Chinese Eastern Command of the People's Liberation Army. They involved air, land and sea forces, also the rocket forces targeting targets on land and in sea around Taiwan. Most importantly, I think for Taiwan, they're practicing blockading the island from all directions. Taiwan's a very small island. It's a trading nation, a lot on trade for the import of food.