Q: It’s learned that the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Special Envoy for Asian Affairs will again travel to Cambodia and Thailand tomorrow (December 18) to promote peace between the two sides. Can you brief us on that?

A: As a close neighbor and friend of Cambodia and Thailand, China closely follows the ongoing border conflict between the two countries and has shuttled between the two sides to promote peace. Through its own way, China has been working actively for deescalation. Tomorrow the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Special Envoy for Asian Affairs will again make a shuttle-diplomacy trip to Cambodia and Thailand in an effort to bridge the two sides to rebuild peace at an early date.