U.S. President Donald Trump landed in Malaysia for the ASEAN Summit on Sunday, where he is set to witness an expanded ceasefire deal between Thailand and Cambodia and oversee pivotal trade talks.
Trump’s first order of business at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit will involve watching over a ceasefire deal between Cambodia and Thailand after he helped broker an end to a deadly five-day border conflict in July.
The agreement builds on a truce signed three months ago after Trump called the then-leaders of the two countries, urging them to end hostilities or risk their respective trade talks with Washington being put on hold.
Both sides blame each other for starting the five-day exchange of rockets and heavy artillery, which killed at least 48 people and temporarily displaced an estimated 300,000 in their worst fighting in recent history.
Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul nearly missed the signing after the death of the kingdom’s Queen Mother Sirikit on Friday, but later decided to fly in for the ceremony.
