China is quietly involving itself in other countries' politics, like providing money to politicians in the Philippines. You might remember the Philippines, they used to let the US have a base there ...
Clinton saw to it that the Chi-Coms got to buy the old San Diego naval base...not to mention letting them acquire that high-tech missile defense technology from Loral. But, geez, there I go again- it's always about Bubba.
two bases.