The washing ashore of rotting smuggled chicken in Thailand suggests shortages in Cambodia. Formal trade has collapsed due to the border conflict, leading to an increase in illicit cargo flows despite a continuing consumer boycott.

Plastic bags stuffed with rotting chicken from a smugglers’ boat washed ashore in Thailand have hinted at shortages inside Cambodia, as formal trade between the neighbours collapses due to the border conflict and illicit cargo flows surge instead. While demand appears high for smuggled Thai oil, fruit, meat and consumer items like soap, the Cambodian public is maintaining a boycott of Thai businesses in a nationalist kickback that reveals the depth of the enmity now staining relations between...