Spain’s Carmen Moreno has been approved\nas the new EU ambassador to Cambodia, replacing the outgoing George Edgar,\nMinistry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation spokesperson Ket\nSophann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/bit.ly\/2GreJAh;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n China has signed a secret deal to gain\nexclusive rights to a Cambodian naval base, The Wall Street Journal reported <\/a>. Australia has warned a Chinese base in\nCambodia would upend peace and stability in the region, as the superpower moves\nto use debt-laden developing nations to expand its military footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prime Minister Hun Sen dismissed a\nWall Street Journal report that Cambodia had signed a secret agreement allowing\nthe Chinese military to use the Kingdom\u2019s Ream Naval Base as \u201cfabricated news\u201d.\n Minister of National Defence Tea Banh also criticised sanctions\nimposed on Cambodia by \u201csuperpowers and organisations\u201d as unjust and as a\npolitical trend against the Kingdom however he urged the Japanese\ngovernment to continue supporting and funding the Kingdom by providing additional\ntraining and equipment to the armed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chinese government dismissed a\nreport by The Wall Street Journal alleging a secret agreement between China and\nCambodia was reached to allow a Chinese military presence in Preah Sihanouk\nprovince. It said the report was \u201cover-interpreted\u201d. Sixty-one years ago, the\nCambodian-Chinese cooperation treaty was signed by late King Father Norodom\nSihanouk and then-Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, and both nations continued to\nstrengthen ties and eventually established a \u2018Comprehensive Strategic\nPartnership of Cooperation\u2019 in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n http:\/\/bit.ly\/312K97X<\/a>; http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ylg7dM<\/a>; https:\/\/bit.ly\/2YcxNbw<\/a>; https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Y1CYQ0<\/a>; https:\/\/bit.ly\/2YbUE6T<\/a>; https:\/\/bit.ly\/2JTnaWQ<\/a>; http:\/\/bit.ly\/30SsbEM<\/a>; <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/bit.ly\/2JMLcTr<\/a>; http:\/\/bit.ly\/30Weg0E<\/a>; http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Y6xO5D<\/a>; https:\/\/bit.ly\/32QLEYC<\/a>; https:\/\/bit.ly\/2YlA4Fq<\/a>; <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cambodia government requested the\nAsian Development Bank (ADB) to consider providing aid \u2013 especially to the\nelderly, people with disabilities and orphaned children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/bit.ly\/2JQBdg6;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier this week, Vietnam and Cambodia\nboth held the latest iteration of their defense policy dialogue. The mechanism,\nwhich came amid several developments, including new reports of a Cambodia\nand China-Vietnam\ntensions in the South China Sea<\/a>, spotlighted how both sides are continuing to manage their\ndefense ties amid these wider domestic and foreign policy developments that\nhave tested relations. http:\/\/bit.ly\/2SH3MPH<\/a>; \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spain’s Carmen Moreno has been approved as the new EU ambassador to Cambodia, replacing the outgoing George Edgar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation spokesperson Ket Sophann. https:\/\/bit.ly\/2GreJAh; China has signed a secret deal to gain exclusive rights to a Cambodian naval base, The Wall Street Journal reported . Australia has warned a Chinese base […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}