Xi knows the USA. During Trump’s first term in office, China’s president was already at Mar-a-Lago in 2017. In 2015, then US President Barack Obama welcomed Xi to the White House. Trump himself had already indicated that he would travel to China himself. He had already been received there by Xi in 2017.
Three months after heavy fighting in the border area between Thailand and Cambodia, both countries signed a peace agreement in the presence of US President Donald Trump. Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Manet sealed the agreement on Sunday in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. Trump had recently landed there as a guest at the summit of the Southeast Asian community of states, Asean – it is the first stop on his multi-day trip to Asia.
The agreement is a reminder “that reconciliation is not a concession, but an act of courage, and that peace, once chosen, can reshape the future of nations,” emphasized Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose country is chairing the Asean summit this year.
Donald Trump has landed in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. He wants to be present at the signing of a peace agreement between Thailand and Cambodia – the USA, along with Malaysia and China, mediated the conflict. There were days of heavy fighting between the neighboring countries on their 800-kilometer-long border in July.
