On August 1, 2025, local time, the Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia and the head of Cambodia's tariff negotiations with the United States, Son Chanthol, announced that Cambodia will purchase 10 Boeing aircraft from the United States, and at the same time, Cambodia will implement zero tariffs on all US goods. Deputy Prime Minister Son Chanthol also announced that Cambodia will nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. "Without Trump, this conflict might still be ongoing," said Chanthol. He stated that Trump not only played a role in resolving the Cambodian-Thai conflict, but his role in other regional peace issues should also be recognized. Cambodia is the second country after Pakistan to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

If Cambodia imports products from the United States and then exports them to China, does it bypass our tariff sanctions against the United States? Theoretically, some can be done, such as vegetables, fruits, and chicken. However, it should still depend on the final cost, because transportation costs are not low. After all, Cambodia connects to Guangxi and Yunnan. If the consumption is in eastern or northern China, there is still a huge domestic transportation cost. The US has launched a series of tariff wars targeting us, preventing our manufactured goods from being transshipped to the US through other countries. Our tariffs are as high as 45%. Originally 10%, it became 19% tariffs, and it was considered good news. Being cut less, yet celebrating? Cambodia's current pro-US actions prove that international relations between countries have always been about strength, not weakness.

Trump is waging tariff wars around the world, but the essential issue is that American goods are not competitive even with zero tariffs. What America currently uses to make money is not a product of basic manufacturing industry. To put it simply, to maintain the luxurious lifestyle of the United States, they print a lot of money, plunder goods from all over the world, and then impose tariffs on the goods of the plundered countries.

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