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I think it's quite embarrassing to the Chinese that the president signed an agreement with the Cambodians and the Thai over their border dispute. Where was China? And similarly, in the Middle East peace process, where was China? President Trump is proving to be a very effective international negotiator, and the Chinese are not looking that good. Some analysts say China won't just sit around and watch the U.S. expand its influence in On Wednesday, just three days after Malaysia agreed to ease the ban on rare earth exports to the U.S., the country rolled back its decision, saying the ban will remain in place. It's worth noting Malaysia relies on Chinese technology to refine rare earths. Riley Walters, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, shed light on Southeast Asia's balancing act amid U.S.-China arm-wrestling. I think for a lot of these Southeast Asian nations, it's constant hedging between the United States and China. Trump is, of course, having much higher demands of these countries and these economies, and so they are in a way hedging. It doesn't necessarily mean that they're getting closer with the United States. I think they are still very skeptical of this administration and what his Indo-Pacific strategy can look like. It's also not as if they are getting closer with China either, I would say. Besides trade deals, Trump received nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize twice within a week from Cambodia and Japan. Asian leaders praised Trump for his efforts in mediating long-rooted regional conflicts, including the one between Thailand and Cambodia and the one between India and Pakistan.