President Donald Trump is championing himself as an expert in conflict resolution after helping successfully negotiate peace between Thailand and Cambodia. The president boasted about his accomplishment Monday while speaking to reporters in Scotland alongside U.

The US president used trade leverage to halt the conflict. China's approach was less direct. Trump aims to be seen as a peacemaker. The truce, negotiated in Malaysia, is holding.

United States President Donald Trump says he has spoken with the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand in a bid to end their border fighting, on the second day of his golfing trip in Scotland, where he owns and is promoting two courses.

"The U.S. already flunked the test and that should be a wakeup call," a former senior U.S. State Department official told Newsweek.