Exclusive: China Completing Major Naval Base in Cambodia, Capable of Docking Its New Generation of Carriers
Strategic gain is seen for the Communist giant, as Cambodia emerges as its proxy in Southeast Asia.
KAMPOT, Cambodia — Communist China, in a big step of force projection for its new blue water navy, is completing on Cambodia’s coast a pier capable of berthing one of China’s three new aircraft carriers.
The pier has the same length — 1,100 feet — and the same elbow design as a carrier capable pier built on China’s only existing overseas naval base, in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa.
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