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The leaders of Cambodia and Thailand only came to the negotiation table when U.S. President Donald Trump told them that tariff negotiations would not continue unless there was peace, Reuters exclusively reported.<br \/>Cambodian Defence Minister Tea Seiha and Thailand&#8217;s acting defence minister Nattaphon Narkphanit are due to meet at Malaysia&#8217;s Armed Forces headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia and Thailand&#8217;s top defence officials began a meeting in Malaysia on Thursday to finalise a permanent end to hostilities following a violent five-day border conflict that ended in an unconditional ceasefire late in July.The Southeast Asian neighbours saw the worst fighting in over a decade last month, including exchanges of artillery fire and jet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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