{"id":226111,"date":"2025-10-26T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226111\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:57:09","slug":"trump-oversees-signing-of-historic-thailand-cambodia-peace-deal-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226111\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump oversees signing of ‘historic’ Thailand-Cambodia ‘peace deal’ – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"What does the \u2018Kuala Lumpur Peace Accord\u2019 actually amount to?published at 07:10 GMT<\/p>\n

07:10 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Jonathan Head
BBC South East Asia Correspondent<\/p>\n

\"USImage source, EPA<\/p>\n

It was, as everyone knew it would be, all about President Trump.<\/p>\n

He literally towered over everyone else at the ceremony in Kuala Lumpur where Cambodia and Thailand signed their agreement. He gave the longest speech, and made the biggest claims.<\/p>\n

It was all superlatives. \u201cThis is a momentous day for South East Asia,\u201d said the US president. \u201cA monumental step\u201d.<\/p>\n

But what does the \u2018Kuala Lumpur Peace Accord\u2019, as President Trump has renamed it, actually amount to?<\/p>\n

Remember, both countries signed a ceasefire back in July. That too was helped, or at least accelerated, by pressure from Trump. Looking at the details of the latest deal, though, it isn\u2019t much of leap forward.<\/p>\n

The two countries have agreed to withdraw their heavy weapons from the disputed border, and to establish an interim observer team to monitor it. <\/p>\n

They have a new procedure for clearing landmines, and will set up what they call a joint task force to address the proliferation of scam centres. They will replace missing border markers with temporary ones.<\/p>\n

This is progress, and Thai diplomats have told me they do feel President Trump\u2019s involvement may help these agreements stick. But the historic differences over the border remain unresolved, and at risk of flaring up again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What does the \u2018Kuala Lumpur Peace Accord\u2019 actually amount to?published at 07:10 GMT 07:10 GMT Jonathan HeadBBC South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-226111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}