The special friendly relationship between China and Cambodia is well known all over the world, and Cambodia's new Prime Minister Hun Manet's first foreign visit after taking office is scheduled to be in China, and the Cambodian royal family also has close relations with China. It stands to reason that it is normal for China and Cambodia to exchange visits, but the United States is not happy about it.
On December 3, the United States satellite photographed two Chinese ships anchored at the Ream Naval Base in Cambodia, and on the 6th, the United States expressed "serious concern" about this matter.
In recent years, the Chinese Navy's ocean-going activities have continued to increase, and foreign visits have become more frequent. In fact, the two medium-leading ships docked in Cambodia, which is publicly released.
As early as December 5, Cambodian Defense Minister Di Shiha posted on social **, pointing out that the arrival of the Chinese ** ship was in preparation for the training of the navy. So the nature of this matter is that the Chinese ** ship made a friendly visit to Cambodia as part of the routine cooperation between the two countries, what is there to fault with this?
But don't forget, it's the Americans who are paying attention to this matter, and the Americans are the best in the world at buttoning people's hats. The "smart" Americans quickly noticed that the place where the ships docked was at the Ream Naval Base, which the United States has been hyping up for the past few years, claiming that China had obtained exclusive access to about a third of the base's area.
Wall Street** and others even compared the base with the Chinese base in Djibouti, and concluded that China's strengthened military presence in Cambodia would pose a "threat" to the regional situation. Not only that, but the United States also said that China violated the Cambodian constitution by having the right to use the Ream base.
This is interesting, Cambodia's own constitution, what does the United States care?The Cambodian side has repeatedly stated that it has not allowed China to station troops in Cambodia. As a sovereign country, does Cambodia need the United States to remind him how to uphold the Constitution?Moreover, China has helped Cambodia to build some facilities, the Chinese ** ship has visited Cambodia, and China has some normal military exchanges with Cambodia, is it a threat?
Since the United States believes that the presence of the Chinese ship is a threat, the Chinese ship has also sailed into the Thames River in the United Kingdom, Hamburg in Germany, and visited Spain, and the United States should quickly investigate to see if Britain, Germany, Spain and other Western countries are engaged in any conspiracy with China.
In addition, the United States should not forget that it itself has military cooperation with China. During the 2016 RIMPAC military exercise, the United States set up the subject of Sino-US joint exercises in the exercise, and let the "Xi'an" of the Chinese Navy command the US ** ship, so the United States should investigate it carefully to see if there is a rebellion within its own military and dare to cooperate with China.
In fact, the first partner of the Ream Naval Base was the United States. Since 2010, the base has been the site of annual joint training and naval exercises between the United States and Cambodia.
According to the current logic of the United States, the United States has been violating Cambodia's sovereignty for the past few years. In addition, the United States only reached an agreement with Papua New Guinea in May this year, stipulating that the US Navy can have unhindered access to military bases in PNG, and can carry out development and construction activities outside the bases, so is this a violation of PNG's sovereignty?
The United States is the most powerful country in the world and the only superpower, but in the diplomatic realm, the country often shows some long-tongued characteristics.
Whether China is going to do business or conduct military exchanges, the United States will come and spend a lot of saliva and rack its brains to put all kinds of hats on China. He is the only superpower in the world, but he is also the country with the most in the world.
This kind of psychology of the United States is actually not surprising, and Chinese officials once accurately summarized this psychology: the Cold War mentality. To put it bluntly, the United States and the Soviet Union have been confronted for decades, fiercely competing in various fields, forming an inertial thinking that whatever the Soviet Union does is aimed at the United States.
Now that the Soviet Union has disappeared for more than 30 years, the United States has never come out of this logic and is looking for enemies all over the world. With the gradual growth of China's strength, the United States really has the feeling that all the grass and trees are soldiers. Even if China goes to a foreign country to build a road or a port, the United States will be nervous, and it will play a big drama in its mind about "China challenging US hegemony."
In fact, the United States is the most powerful military country in the world, with about 750 military bases in 80 countries around the world, more than 300 of which are around China.
At the same time, the overall strength of the United States in the navy and air force is also stronger than that of China, and some of his captive eagle dogs, such as Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines, are at odds with China. It can be said that militarily, the United States still has an advantage in the face of China at this stage.
So, what is there for the United States to be afraid of?He was afraid of the future. China is a completely different opponent from the Soviet Union, and its strength has been growing, but it does not engage in an arms race with the United States, is not led by the nose by the United States, does not have the slightest rise in global hegemony, and will not follow the old path of the Soviet Union.
Such a country with steady development is the most difficult for the United States to deal with. The United States should continue to suffer from the decline of its own strength and its inability to disrupt China's development for many more years.