New facilities and the months-long presence of Chinese warships show Beijing’s growing global influence.
In 2020, something curious happened at Cambodia’s Ream military base, on the Gulf of Thailand.
Not long after submitting — and then abruptly withdrawing — a request for the U.S. Defense Department to refurbish parts of the base, Cambodian officials proceeded to demolish the American-funded buildings that were already there, some only four years old.
Then the Chinese got to work.
In full: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/14/world/asia/china-cambodia-military-warship-base.html
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