The Washington Post reported on June 5 that China is “secretly building a naval facility on Ream Naval Base in Cambodia for the exclusive use of its military.”
- Citing unnamed Western officials, the report claimed that both countries were “taking extraordinary measures to conceal the operation.”
- However, Cambodia denied that it will allow any Chinese military presence at a port where it and China are beginning an expansion.
- The news of Chinese construction at the Ream Naval Base has prompted concern in the United States and elsewhere that it will be used by Beijing as a naval outpost on the Gulf of Thailand.
- Ream Naval Base is located on Cambodia’s southern coast facing the Gulf of Thailand.
- U.S. and allied officials said that the site would give Beijing its first dedicated naval staging facility in Southeast Asia.
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