Item 1 of 2 Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul delivers the policy statements of the Council of Ministers to the parliament, at the parliament house, in Bangkok, Thailand, September 29, 2025. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
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Dozens of people were killed and around 300,000 were temporarily displaced in the most intense fighting between the Southeast Asian neighbours in recent history.
Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he had asked for the ceasefire ceremony to be held on Sunday morning, after which he would return to Thailand.
Anutin said he would also miss next week’s APEC Summit in South Korea.
The Thai cabinet is scheduled to meet on Saturday morning to discuss the funeral arrangements.
The world’s two biggest economies are looking to find a way forward after Trump threatened new 100% tariffs on Chinese goods and other trade curbs starting November 1 in retaliation for China’s vastly expanded export controls on rare earth magnets and minerals.
World leaders, including Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa and Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, will join Trump at the summit on Sunday.
The U.S. president is expected to hold a highly anticipated meeting with Lula on the sidelines of the summit, although the talks are still unconfirmed.
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to Asia that he would consider reducing tariffs on Brazil under the right circumstances.
Trump stated that he does not intend to hold a similar meeting with Carney and that he is “satisfied with the deal we have” with Canada.
Trade talks with the U.S.’s second-largest trading partner were abruptly cut off over an advertisement issued by Ontario’s provincial government that featured former President Ronald Reagan saying tariffs cause trade wars and economic disaster.
Trump has called the video fraudulent.
Reporting by Rozanna Latiff and Danial Azhar; Additional reporting by Panu Wongcha-um in Bangkok; Writing by John Mair; Editing by Jacqueline Wong
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