Washington has made trade deals with Cambodia and Thailand, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said.

“It’s unbelievable. And because he [Trump] uses trade, he gets to invite me on the phone, and I listened all day Saturday while he’s calling Cambodia, Thailand,” Lutnick said on Fox News on Wednesday. “And what happens on Monday? They announce a truce. And here we did today. We made trade deals with Cambodia and Thailand.”

Previously, Thailand and Cambodia, in a joint statement issued after talks in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, had said that China had contributed to the political settlement of the border dispute between the two countries.

The US also has offered mediation initiatives to ease tensions between the two parties. President Trump earlier had phone conversations with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Thai Acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai The he warned that the US would not hold trade talks with Thailand and Cambodia until they stopped fighting.