{"id":45316,"date":"2022-06-10T10:05:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/10\/ironclad-brothers-what-china-wants-from-its-role-in-cambodias-biggest-naval-base"},"modified":"2022-06-10T10:05:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:05:58","slug":"ironclad-brothers-what-china-wants-from-its-role-in-cambodias-biggest-naval-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45316","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ironclad brothers\u2019: what China wants from its role in Cambodia\u2019s biggest naval base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: reports the Chinese military will get exclusive use of part of Ream base have been denied, but experts say nature of the arrangement remains unclear<\/p>\n<p>At a ceremony this week, Cambodian and Chinese officials proclaimed their friendship as they announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/07\/chinese-military-to-have-exclusive-use-of-parts-of-cambodian-naval-base-ream-gulf-of-thailand\">new construction project<\/a>. Holding spades decorated with red bows, they turned over soil to signal the start of building work at Cambodia\u2019s biggest naval base, Ream. It will be expanded and renovated, thanks to a Chinese grant of an undisclosed sum \u2013 a development that has alarmed the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina and Cambodia have become ironclad brothers,\u201d said China\u2019s ambassador to Cambodia, Wang Wentian, at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/10\/ironclad-brothers-what-china-wants-from-its-role-in-cambodias-biggest-naval-base\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: reports the Chinese military will get exclusive use of part of Ream base have been denied, but experts say nature of the arrangement remains unclearAt a ceremony this week, Cambodian and Chinese officials proclaimed their friendship as they a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45317,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45316\/revisions\/45317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}