{"id":16004,"date":"2025-01-06T15:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16004"},"modified":"2025-01-06T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:05:52","slug":"for-the-first-time-in-8-years-a-us-navy-ship-makes-a-port-call-in-cambodia-a-top-chinese-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16004","title":{"rendered":"For the first time in 8 years, a US Navy ship makes a port call in Cambodia, a top Chinese ally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. and others suggest China\u2019s navy is establishing a permanent base at Ream, which would give it easier access to the Malacca Strait, a critical shipping route between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Controversy over the Chinese activity at Ream initially arose in 2019 when The Wall Street Journal reported that an early draft of an agreement seen by U.S. officials would allow China 30-year use of the base, where it would be able to post military personnel, store weapons and berth warships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cambodia\u2019s government has denied such an agreement or any intention to grant China special privileges at the base, though Beijing has funded its expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September, Cambodia\u2019s Defense Ministry said that China is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-cambodia-ream-warships-navy-port-e21dbae6bd1b9943f7bec8bbaa040da9\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">giving its navy two warships<\/a>&nbsp;of the type it has had docked there for months. China is set to hand over two newly built Type 56 corvettes \u2014 smaller vessels typically used for coastal patrols \u2014 next year at the earliest, after Cambodia requested China\u2019s support.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/first-time-8-years-us-074249979.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/first-time-8-years-us-074249979.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The U.S. and others suggest China\u2019s navy is establishing a permanent base at Ream, which would give it easier access to the Malacca Strait, a critical shipping route between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Controversy over the Chinese activity at Ream initially arose in 2019 when The Wall Street Journal reported that an early draft of an agreement seen by U.S. officials would allow China 30-year use of the base, where it would be able to post military personnel, store weapons and berth warships.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia\u2019s government has denied such an agreement or any intention to grant China special privileges at the base, though Beijing has funded its expansion.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Cambodia\u2019s Defense Ministry said that China is giving its navy two warships of the type it has had docked there for months. China is set to hand over two newly built Type 56 corvettes \u2014 smaller vessels typically used for coastal patrols \u2014 next year at the earliest, after Cambodia requested China\u2019s support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/first-time-8-years-us-074249979.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[729,2009,89,390,1915,272,355,314,1056,2008,619],"class_list":["post-16004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asia","tag-cambodia","tag-china","tag-diplomacy","tag-east-asia","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-navy","tag-southeast-asia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16005,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16004\/revisions\/16005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}