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China's ready to overpower initially Cambodia and Thai peninsula (7)

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I believe the answer is:

yucatan

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'peninsula' is the definition.
(Yucatan Peninsula is an example)

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(Other definitions for yucatan that I've seen before include "Mexican state" , "Region of Mexico" , "part of Mexico" , "Mexican peninsula where Mayas lived" , "N. Mexican peninsula" .)

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