PHNOM PENH, June 7 (AP): Cambodia denied again Tuesday that it will allow any Chinese military presence at a port where it and China are beginning an expansion this week that has prompted concern in the United States and elsewhere that it will be used by Beijing as a naval outpost on the Gulf of Thailand. Chief government spokesman Phay Siphan described the expansion of the Ream Naval Base as “cooperation between China and Cambodia" and said the Chinese ambassador to Cambodia will preside over the groundbreaking on Wednesday along with Cambodia’s defense minister and other senior military officials. He denied, however, a report in the Washington Post newspaper citing an anonymous Chinese official that the facility on the northern side of the Cambodian base would be used in part by the Chinese military. Siphan said it would be a violation of Cambodia’s Constitution to host a foreign military power, and that there had been no change in the terms of his country’s agreement with China on constructing the facility. “I think that’s a strong accusation," he said in a telephone interview. He would not comment on the extent of the Chinese involvement and said the project involved constructing a… Read full this story
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