PHNOM PENH, Oct 25 (Reuters) - China is giving Cambodia nine naval patrol boats to safeguard oil installations in the Gulf of Thailand, another sign of Beijing's deepening ties with the Southeast Asian nation, military officials said on Thursday.
"These boats will enable us to prevent maritime crimes such as terrorism, but also to protect natural resources within our sea territory," said General Nim Sovath, who attended a signing ceremony in the Chinese city of Guangzhou this week.
An army-run Cambodian TV channel heralded the deal as evidence of stronger military cooperation with China, which provided Phnom Penh with six naval patrol boats in 2005 to help combat people and drug smuggling.
Beijing followed up the next year with $600 million in aid and grants -- a sum equal to the annual amount given by Cambodia's traditional donors.
Cambodia is expected to take possession of the vessels, believed to be worth around $60 million, early next month.
Even though Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen spent much of his life fighting Pol Pot's Beijing-backed Khmer Rouge, he has worked hard in recent years to build ties with China as a counterweight to Vietnam, which lies between them.
The improved relationship also works well for Beijing, keen to negotiate access to friendly deep-sea ports in Southeast Asia, its main fuel gateway.
Sihanoukville, Cambodia's only such port, will be the processing centre for oil and natural gas expected to flow from its "Block A" chunk of the Gulf of Thailand by 2010. U.S. oil giant Chevron Corp is leading exploration drilling.
"These boats will enable us to prevent maritime crimes such as terrorism, but also to protect natural resources within our sea territory," said General Nim Sovath, who attended a signing ceremony in the Chinese city of Guangzhou this week.
An army-run Cambodian TV channel heralded the deal as evidence of stronger military cooperation with China, which provided Phnom Penh with six naval patrol boats in 2005 to help combat people and drug smuggling.
Beijing followed up the next year with $600 million in aid and grants -- a sum equal to the annual amount given by Cambodia's traditional donors.
Cambodia is expected to take possession of the vessels, believed to be worth around $60 million, early next month.
Even though Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen spent much of his life fighting Pol Pot's Beijing-backed Khmer Rouge, he has worked hard in recent years to build ties with China as a counterweight to Vietnam, which lies between them.
The improved relationship also works well for Beijing, keen to negotiate access to friendly deep-sea ports in Southeast Asia, its main fuel gateway.
Sihanoukville, Cambodia's only such port, will be the processing centre for oil and natural gas expected to flow from its "Block A" chunk of the Gulf of Thailand by 2010. U.S. oil giant Chevron Corp is leading exploration drilling.
18 comments:
Good for this though much debt. Police base on Kohs in Kep&Kampot could have better equipted even though some of them are VN.
I'm v8,we're need to reclaim our Island KOSH PORSH, back from our public # 1 ENEMY.but we need internaltional support.
The Russian can not develop Kosh Prsh dude he is in jail!
Are you khmer, 7:16PM?
"Even though Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen spent much of his life fighting Pol Pot's Beijing-backed Khmer Rouge, he has worked hard in recent years to build ties with China as a counterweight to Vietnam, which lies between them."
Doesn't make sense if Hun Sen has been under Vietname's control.
11:48Pm Learn abit more about people, life, and politic!
Even He is a puppet he is still human!
And Human move itself and think not exacly like wooden popet!
Why did I wast time with IDIOT?
Thank You, China!
This will definitely help us to cut of Ah Khmer-Yuon trafficking and drug smuggling to Cambodia by sea.
Also, We'll always stand firm on the "One China Policy", "One Vietnam Policy", "One Cambodia Policy", ..., and "One New Zealand Policy". And trust us: Ah Khmer-Yuons won't have a prayer to change any of our policy.
Becareful there is no such thing as free lunch! Cambodia is not for sale!
Don't forget that Cambodia also needs jet fighters too!
Oil for weapon is the way to go!
Yeah right, on the moon, but not here. Stop being funny, will ya?
I'm v8,who mention a free lunch?it's look like YOUN & SIAME-just stoll our DINNER man!we just started to relize how DUMB we were for so long.communist suck!!freedom rule!!so go AMERICA-keep fighting for freedom,maybe one day all of us started to relize that heaven can be made here on earth.
Cambodia needs jet fighters !
That's the most stupid thing I've read in years...
Hahaha... haha.. ha !
We need jet fighters, yeah! And let crashes those jets when ah Hun Sen doing his incompetent Red Cross, B!
How many days does it takes for Cambodian officials to find a plane crash into HunSen's head?
None because they are busying barking at each other.
To 7:34AM!
I know it is the most stupid thing that you have read in years because you can't fly one! Don't forget in 1979 when the Vietcong invaded Cambodia and the first thing they used was airpower which makes the Khmer Rouge run like a monkey! Ahahhahah! And even recently, the Thaicong were testing their missile violating Cambodian airspace! It is a good thing for Cambodian military to have a bird view on the ground to see what the Thaicong and the Vietcong are up to!
Cambodia must fly like a bird and sting like a bee!
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"Vietnam Orders More Fighters
The Moscow Times
Vietnam on Monday agreed to buy four Sukhoi fighter jets for $100 million, a deal that adds fresh impetus to President Vladimir Putin’s drive to increase arms sales to Southeast Asia"
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2007/05/27/sukhoi-fighter-jet-deal-something-fishy/
Thailand to buy 12 Swedish jet fighters for one billion dollars!
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Thailand_to_buy_12_Swedish_jet_fighters_for_one_billion_dollars_999.html
Hey, just speak for Ah Khmer-Yuon only, will ya? We don't want to follow their evil track.
we don't need fighter jets. We just need cheap short range missiles that could go for a couple hundred miles. It's not too hard to build short range missles.
Couple hundred miles is short? Man, you got quite a sense of judgment, not to mention declaring how easy to to make something in a shape of a pen fly for a few minutes to wherever you wanted it to land, hahaha, LOL, hahaha... .
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