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Mr Panetta's decision to fly from Singapore to Cam Ranh Bay, a port in Vietnam, did nothing to allay their suspicions.
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In Vietnam, the Soviet Union is reportedly conducting a major build-up of its naval fleet at the extensive Da Nang and Cam Ranh Bay facilities.
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"Offering Cam Ranh Bay to foreign navies is a master stroke, " says Carlyle Thayer, a professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy at the University of New South Wales.
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He visited Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, one of Asia's best natural deepwater ports that was used by America during the Vietnam war and which Vietnam now wants to open to foreign navies for commercial reasons.
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After the Soviets drew down their forces at Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay naval base in 1984 and the U.S. left the Clark and Subic Bay bases in the Philippines in 1991, the PLA occupied nearby islands in the South China Sea.
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In lieu of a big arms buildup, it is opening up a prized military asset, its deep-water port in Cam Ranh Bay, in the hopes that foreign navies will steam into the South China Sea and help secure the region's shipping lanes.
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