Name: 中國在柬埔寨的秘密海軍基地計劃（China’s Secret Navy Base Plans in Cambodia）
Uploaded: 2021-06-10T15:36:34.000Z
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It gives China's navy exclusive rights to a naval base

That could help the Chinese military control

a critical shipping lane in Southeast Asia.

China has signed a secret deal for exclusive rights

to use part of a Cambodian naval base called Ream.

Now if the Chinese Communist Party's military,

was really building a navy base in Cambodia—

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen totally denied it!

Of course, it would be super embarrassing if, say,

Wait... technically, it's not a *Chinese* military base.

The pact simply gives China *exclusive rights* to part of a *Cambodian* naval base.

That's why Cambodia's prime minister is doubling down,

calling it “the worst fake news against Cambodia.”

Which is yet another lie, because the worst fake news against Cambodia

is that the prime minister actually “won” the last election.

It's so much easier to win after you've thrown out all of your opposition.

Also, the naval base thing happens to be true.

Unlike free and fair elections in Cambodia.

So what's the big deal about a Chinese navy presence in Cambodia?

Well, as I mentioned, that navy base is here.

And that means easy access to the Strait of Malacca.

And that's the most important shipping lane

between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

The Pentagon believes it's part of Chinese regime's plan

to boost its ability to project military power around the globe.

And the US is “'concerned that any steps by the Cambodian government

to invite a foreign military presence in Cambodia'

would disturb regional peace and stability.”

Although I'm sure if that “foreign military presence” were the US,

Not that that the Chinese military being there is really equivalent.

Especially considering that the Chinese military is run by the Communist Party,

which supported the previous Cambodian Khmer Rouge regime—

even as it murdered one quarter of Cambodia's population in the 1970s.

Anyway, the base would be Beijing's first dedicated facility

on the Southeast Asian mainland for naval staging.

That is what happens when our graphics guy spends too much time on YouTube.

“Naval staging” is where you put navy units,

aircraft and warships some place where they can be prepared

A former U.S. State Department official says having a naval base in Cambodia

gives the People's Liberation Army Navy a leg up in all of Southeast Asia.

Because “You have all of a sudden mainland Southeast Asia

potentially sitting behind a defensive Chinese military perimeter.”

And another U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal

that a Chinese presence at Ream would “greatly complicate”

the ability of the U.S. to help Taiwan if Beijing decides to attack.

The Chinese Communist Party opened its first official military outpost overseas

in the African nation of Djibouti just two years ago.

That made Djibouti “the linchpin in China's belt and road plan."

The Belt and Road is the Chinese Communist Party's plan

to build a sprawling network of land and sea links throughout Asia,

And as a way for the Party to project power and influence across the world.

The Chinese navy's exclusive use of the naval base in Ream,

Cambodia is part of what the Pentagon sees as the Chinese regime's quest

for a global network of military and dual-use sites.

Djibouti was the blueprint for "mixing commercial and military interests."

And it just so happens that the Chinese navy

is also allegedly building a navy base in Pakistan,

Chinese state-backed companies also lease deep water ports

but the Chinese regime also denies those will ever be naval bases.

Well, as an Australian intelligence official said,

“We have some concern that China is using the same playbook [in Cambodia they]

creating facts on the ground until such time that it is too late for anyone to object.”

Like when the Chinese regime built those fake islands,

but then denied they would be used for the military.

Then they surprised everyone with landing strips

I'm sure those are just civilian landing strips,

And if you think the naval base is Ream is a problem,

The U.S. and its allies are also lobbying Cambodia not to let China's military

use a new airport being built just 40 miles away.

An airport being built by a Chinese company on a 99-year lease.