Why do you think the Chinese would get it, if we kept our bases there.
Not a lot of ethnic Chinese in Hawaii. The Japanese living there are still very powerful, and they would want no part of that.
For the same reasons they’re taking over the Solomon Islands and others.
Keeping and maintaining bases in a “country” you don’t control is problematic at best. We lost Subic and Clark for a decade? Two? Because of a shift in the political winds in the Philippines.