{"id":75595,"date":"2025-12-10T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/10\/thailand-cambodia-fighting-explained-30-seconds"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:52:47","slug":"whats-behind-the-thailand-cambodia-clashes-explained-in-30-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75595","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s behind the Thailand-Cambodia clashes \u2013 explained in 30 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hostilities have flared in the contested border area after a Trump-brokered ceasefire deal has broken down<\/p>\n<p>Stretching across more than 817km (508 miles), the shared land border between Thailand and Cambodia has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/24\/why-thailand-cambodia-border-clash-conflict\">marred by conflict<\/a> for more than a century. Sovereignty has been contested since France, which occupied Cambodia until 1953, first mapped the border in 1907.<\/p>\n<p>However, tensions have worsened significantly in 2025. In May, clashes in the area that killed a Cambodian soldier sparked nationalist sentiment on both sides, and saw both governments retaliate.<strong> <\/strong>Thailand imposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/24\/thailand-army-closes-cambodia-border-crossings-as-territorial-tensions-escalate-paetongtarn-shinawatra-hun-sen\">harsh border restrictions<\/a>, while Cambodia banned the broadcast of Thai films, and the import<strong> <\/strong>of Thai fruit, vegetables, gas and fuel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/10\/thailand-cambodia-fighting-explained-30-seconds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostilities have flared in the contested border area after a Trump-brokered ceasefire deal has broken downStretching across more than 817km (508 miles), the shared land border between Thailand and Cambodia has been marred by conflict for more than a ce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75596,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75595\/revisions\/75596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}