A Chinese naval base in Cambodia signals a new era of competition in the Asia-Pacific region
between China and the Solomon Islands was leaked online, and subsequently confirmed by Beijing, which allows China to send armed police and military personnel to the South Pacific nation in what some U.S. officials believe may be the precursor to a permanent military presence.
The establishment of a Chinese naval base in Cambodia would boost Beijing’s aspirations of becoming a true global power with a network of military facilities around the world. That, combined with the Biden administration’s vow to“The big picture is that the region is becoming more militarized,” says Professor Jonathan Sullivan, director of China programs at the Asia Research Institute of U.K.’s Nottingham University. “Not just through U.S.
China has long had designs on becoming the leading strategic power in the Asia-Pacific but would struggle to challenge U.S. hegemony without overseas bases. According to a 2021 Pentagon, China is “seeking to establish a more robust overseas logistics and basing infrastructure … to support naval, air, ground, cyber, and space power projection.” Other than Cambodia, it has “likely considered a number of countries,” including Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.
Southeast Asia has been backsliding democratically, following military coups in Thailand in 2014 and Myanmar last year, and the astonishingof the notorious Marcos family in the Philippines. But Cambodia is the ASEAN nation seen as closest to Beijing, which has, for a long time, courted Prime Minister Hun Sen with billions of dollars in murky infrastructure loans and development projects involving close cronies. In 2017, then U.S.
Acting secretary of Papua New Guinea's department of foreign affairs and trade Elias Wohengu and Chief of Protocol James Noglai receive Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport on June 2, 2022Canberra is playing a key role in Washington’s containment strategy. Already, Australia’s new Prime Ministerhas called on Beijing to be open about its intentions in Cambodia.
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