The US believes that the expansion plans for the base included exclusive use of the northern portion of the base for China's military and neither country had shared full details about the extent of Beijing's plans to have a unilateral military base there.
SINGAPORE – A decision by Cambodia to expand its biggest naval base and allow the Chinese military exclusive use of a portion of it shows an extraordinary lack of transparency, a senior US defense official said on Thursday, June 9.
“The lack of transparency has been extraordinary… in direct contravention of months and months of denial by them that there was any PRC involvement,” the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said. The comments come as US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Singapore to meet with a number of his Asian counterparts, including an expected meeting with Chinese Minister of National Defense General Wei Fenghe.
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