What’s the Cambodia-Thailand Border Conflict About?: QuickTake

Long-simmering tensions between Thailand and Cambodia boiled upinto five days of clashes in July, leaving almost four dozen people dead and displacing more than 300,000 from their homes.

Three months later, during a trip to Asia, US President Donald Trump brokered what he called the “Kuala Lumpur Peace Accords” in which the neighbors agreed to withdraw heavy weapons from border regions and settle their disagreements.

The uneasy calm was short-lived and, by early December, a new bout of violence was threatening to derail the deal that Trump had backed up with a threat of trade retaliation. If he ...