Oliver Conway

The prime minister is not giving any sense that he's willing to rein in the fighting right now.

The Thai argument is that Cambodia has not shown sincerity.

It's produced compelling evidence that Cambodian soldiers have continued to lay landmines.

Seven Thai soldiers have lost limbs to those landmines this year.

They say you can't have peace if a country does that.

On the Cambodian side, they have 18 of their soldiers still being held here.

They argue should have been released when the ceasefire happened.

And they argue that Thailand is essentially a much bigger country and therefore bullying them.

It's interesting.

Cambodia makes regular appeals to international intervention and sympathy.

They're very, very keen on President Trump to get involved again.

But at the same time, they've brought these rocket launchers up.

They're willing to risk quite high civilian casualties in their response to the Thai artillery and airstrikes.

I don't sense that in terms of actions, either country is really ready to stop this yet.

And I'm not sure this time that President Trump will have the same leverage.

Remember, in July, both countries were approaching a deadline to get the tariffs that he'd imposed on them down.

It was just a few days before that deadline, and I think that leverage was effective then.

I'm not sure now whether he will be as effective, but let's see.

Jonathan Haidt on the Thai side of the border with Cambodia.

Now, have a listen to this.