{"id":113899,"date":"2020-10-05T08:23:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/cambodia-confirms-us-funded-defence-facility-has-been-razed"},"modified":"2020-10-05T08:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:23:03","slug":"cambodia-confirms-us-funded-defence-facility-has-been-razed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/cambodia-confirms-us-funded-defence-facility-has-been-razed","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia confirms US-funded defence facility has been razed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cambodia-confirms-us-funded-defence-facility-has-been-razed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cambodia has razed a US-funded defence facility on its southern coast, the deputy prime minister confirmed Sunday, the latest move in the ongoing controversial expansion of a strategically crucial naval base being developed with Chinese aid.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reported last year on a secret draft deal allowing China to dock warships at the Ream naval base near the kingdom\u2019s coastal city of Sihanoukville.<\/p>\n<p>But Cambodia \u2014 awash in recent years with Chinese investments \u2014 has strenuously denied the report, although strongman premier Hun Sen has said aid from Beijing will fund the naval base\u2019s development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia has razed a US-funded defence facility on its southern coast, the deputy prime minister confirmed Sunday, the latest move in the ongoing controversial expansion of a strategically crucial naval base being developed with Chinese aid. The Wall Street Journal reported last year on a secret draft deal allowing China to dock warships at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}