China’s naval vessels are now permanently deployed at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, a leading expert has told Newsweek.
The base has come back into focus after the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published new satellite imagery on April 18 showing two People’s Liberation Army (PLA) vessels still docked at the pier.
“The satellite imagery strongly indicates that the two vessels never left—the two gaps when they were not at the pier are short enough that it seems far more likely they were engaged in brief exercises at sea, not that they returned home and were replaced by other ships,” said the CSIS’s Gregory Poling, senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank.
In full: https://www.newsweek.com/china-cambodia-ream-new-permanent-naval-base-1894012
