Kuala Lampur, July 29 -- The corridor of diplomacy is never short of symbolic breakthroughs. But occasionally, it offers more than gestures-it opens the door to real possibilities for peace. Such was the case on July 28, 2025, in Putrajaya, where Malaysia's Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim hosted a high-stakes special meeting between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Thailand's Acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai. The world watched with bated breath but it has also found much succor that some forms of military de-escalation are possible.

This, what emerged from that encounter in Putrajaya, the administrative capital of Malaysia, may not be a final resolution writ large-granted this is a historical feud-but it is undoub...