'Swallowed' by China: Cambodia's Ream base expansion raises alarm

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Anchor Moy wrote: Tue Aug 30, 2022 6:16 pm Disappointing article. Doesn't seem like there is anything new to report here ?

I'm waiting for a story about the Chinese compounds situated in little frequented inland areas of Cambodia, which look like army barracks and have some of the best roads in Cambodia, (and the widest - not saying that this is the case, but you could drive tanks down them.) The roads, which lead off secondary public roads, are obviously private property and are closed off with barriers and guards. Chinese writing on the signposts gives another clue.
Could be just slave labour plantations, but the infrastructure looks expensive for a rubber farm or similar. IMO these brand spanking new compounds in the middle of nowhere are more sinister than the construction of a few new sheds in "Ream Naval Base".
Spoiler:
Call me paranoid, or call me Maureen or call me Sreymom, but I get the feeling that the development at Ream is just a diversion. You know, look over here, not over there. My opinion only.
Could not agree with you more, Anchor Moy.
Firstly why would they want a naval base! To may be show their power of the area? With Cambodia has their allies. It's not long ago when I read that some Khmer politician said if there's a conflict Cambodia would stand along with China even if it was the west.
But the Chinese need deep water for the large navel ship's, but they have been sand dredging for years behind Koh Kong island.
Always "hope" but never "expect".
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U.S. Looks to Check Chinese Advances at Cambodian Naval Base
You can’t lay a string of pearls if you can’t get full access.
By Jack Detsch, a Pentagon and national security reporter at Foreign Policy.
December 5, 2022, 5:29 PM

The Biden administration is continuing to push Cambodia for more transparency about China’s access to a naval base on the Gulf of Thailand after U.S. officials warned this year that both nations were taking extraordinary measures to conceal their involvement in the project.

For months, Cambodian officials have insisted to their U.S. counterparts that Ream Naval Base will be accessible for multiple nations, not just the Chinese, even while Chinese troops roamed the base in Cambodian fatigues. But with ties between Washington and Phnom Penh warming in recent months, there’s renewed hope at the U.S. Defense Department that Cambodia could honor that request.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/05/us ... aval-base/
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Meanwhile over the pond in Philippines. Maybe a good thing as all the China projects promised over the last few years never came to anything.
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John Bingham wrote: Tue Aug 30, 2022 3:02 pm
"This area's been swallowed up by China. That, too," a shopkeeper said while pointing toward Ream Naval Base in Sihanoukville in late July.
The base isn't in Sihanoukville, it's about 40km away. And why are they getting headlines from local shopkeepers?
Good point, they should've got their headlines from shopkeepers in Siem Reap, or Battambang maybe.
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of topic but the first post on page 2 is from AndyKK a sad reminder R.I.P matey
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If the chinese buil a naval base in SHV, whats the differnece with all the US naval-bases in the region ??
maybe if all the chinese military come to gamble and fuck hookers in SHV, it will get a new Pattaya ??
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Bongmab69 wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 2:05 pm If the chinese buil a naval base in SHV, whats the differnece with all the US naval-bases in the region ??
maybe if all the chinese military come to gamble and fuck hookers in SHV, it will get a new Pattaya ??
You have to wonder... if there weren't so many US bases in their back yard, would China still see the need to put a base of their own in Cambodia?
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Random Dude wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:39 pm
Bongmab69 wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 2:05 pm If the chinese buil a naval base in SHV, whats the differnece with all the US naval-bases in the region ??
maybe if all the chinese military come to gamble and fuck hookers in SHV, it will get a new Pattaya ??
You have to wonder... if there weren't so many US bases in their back yard, would China still see the need to put a base of their own in Cambodia?
Yes.

For the same reason the USA built bases in the area post WW2 and the Trueman Doctrine
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IraHayes wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:46 pm
Random Dude wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:39 pm
Bongmab69 wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 2:05 pm If the chinese buil a naval base in SHV, whats the differnece with all the US naval-bases in the region ??
maybe if all the chinese military come to gamble and fuck hookers in SHV, it will get a new Pattaya ??
You have to wonder... if there weren't so many US bases in their back yard, would China still see the need to put a base of their own in Cambodia?
Yes.

For the same reason the USA built bases in the area post WW2 and the Trueman Doctrine
Yeah, maybe. That's a good point.
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Random Dude wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:39 pm
Bongmab69 wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 2:05 pm If the chinese buil a naval base in SHV, whats the differnece with all the US naval-bases in the region ??
maybe if all the chinese military come to gamble and fuck hookers in SHV, it will get a new Pattaya ??
You have to wonder... if there weren't so many US bases in their back yard, would China still see the need to put a base of their own in Cambodia?
IMO, the Ream base has more to do with VN and the Strait of Malacca than the US directly.
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