{"id":47554,"date":"2025-05-15T12:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47554"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T07:58:39","slug":"golden-dragon-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/golden-dragon-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Dragon 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Golden Dragon 2025 Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, Cambodia and China have launched their largest-ever Golden Dragon joint military exercise involving land, sea, and air operations.<\/p>\n<h2>About Golden Dragon 2025<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Golden Dragon military exercise<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0<strong>bilateral annual drill<\/strong>\u00a0between\u00a0<strong>China and Cambodia<\/strong>, first initiated in\u00a0<strong>late 2016<\/strong>\u00a0to strengthen military cooperation and strategic ties.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>official theme<\/strong>\u00a0of Golden Dragon 2025 is\u00a0<strong>joint counter-terrorism operations<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>humanitarian relief<\/strong>, portraying the exercise as a\u00a0<strong>peace-building and capacity-building initiative<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The 2025 edition is being held at the\u00a0<strong>Ream Naval Base<\/strong>, located in\u00a0<strong>Sihanoukville<\/strong>, on Cambodia\u2019s southern coast.<\/li>\n<li>The base was\u00a0<strong>officially inaugurated<\/strong>\u00a0in April 2025 with the\u00a0<strong>docking of Chinese warships<\/strong>, highlighting\u00a0<strong>China\u2019s expanding naval presence<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0<strong>Gulf of Thailand<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise features\u00a0<strong>advanced military technologies<\/strong>, including:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reconnaissance and attack drones<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Surgical robots<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Robot dogs<\/strong>, indicating a shift towards\u00a0<strong>tech-driven warfare capabilities<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Golden Dragon drills coincide with the\u00a0<strong>U.S. -Philippines-led \u2018Balikatan\u2019 exercise<\/strong>\u00a0involving\u00a0<strong>troops\u00a0<\/strong>from the\u00a0<strong>U.S, Philippines<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Australia<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Japan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s access to\u00a0<strong>dual-use ports<\/strong>\u00a0in countries like Cambodia echoes similar concerns in places such as\u00a0<strong>Sri Lanka (Hambantota)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Pakistan (Gwadar)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise reflects China\u2019s growing ability to\u00a0<strong>project military power beyond its immediate borders<\/strong>, consistent with its\u00a0<strong>\u201cString of Pearls\u201d strategy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Golden Dragon 2025 FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:\u00a0<\/strong>What is the Golden Dragon 2025 military exercise?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Golden Dragon 2025 is the largest-ever joint military exercise between China and Cambodia, focusing on land, sea, and air operations. It is an annual bilateral drill that began in 2016 to strengthen strategic and defence ties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:\u00a0<\/strong>What is the official theme of Golden Dragon 2025?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0The official theme is joint counter-terrorism operations and humanitarian relief, framing the exercise as a peace-building and capacity-building initiative, despite its display of advanced military capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-cambodia-golden-dragon-military-exercise-01090258ee039fa29db09aa59a5ba91b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden Dragon military exercise is a bilateral annual drill between China and Cambodia, first initiated in late 2016 to strengthen military cooperation and strategic ties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[447,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-47554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-golden-dragon-2025","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}