Overview

• Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet sent an official letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating President Trump and praising his “extraordinary statesmanship” in ending the border clashes.
• The nomination cites Trump’s July 26 phone intervention to the leaders of both countries as the key break in negotiations that led to a Malaysia-mediated truce on July 28.
• Five days of fighting along the roughly 800 km border killed at least 43 people and displaced more than 300,000, according to Reuters and other reports.
• Trump’s threat of a 49% tariff on Cambodian imports, later reduced to 19%, was credited by Cambodian officials as a decisive factor in securing the ceasefire.
• This bid follows earlier nominations by Pakistan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has intensified scrutiny over the Nobel Committee’s political neutrality.