Cambodia-Thailand border conflict: Why the escalation despite Trump-brokered deal? • FRANCE 24
Published at : 12 Dec 2025
Turns out that it's not enough to stage peace signings.Half-a-million displaced as fighting rages along the border between Thailand and Cambodia, a resurgence of July’s five-day conflict that Donald Trump counts as one of the eight wars in eight months he's ended. We’ll ask why the return to fighting and examine the root causes of a dispute that’s more than a century old and seems to require more than a stroke of the pen to settle. First, who to broker a cessation of hostilities. #Thailand #cambodia #conflict