Posted on 03/31/2016 6:44:04 PM PDT by george76
Edited on 03/31/2016 7:04:43 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
China is set to install "a few thousand" troops and staff at its first ever overseas military base, the first permanent overseas deployment by Chinese armed forces.
The new naval facility will sit in the same city as America's own sprawling African military headquarters in Djibouti, the Horn of Africa country where the US has a 4,500-strong base running counter-terrorism operations across the region. Japan, which also has its only overseas military base in Djibouti, already faces a tense stand-off with China over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
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China can blow the Horn of Africa.
This could split Djibouti in two!
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Are they going to claim the Horn of Africa Chinese territory too?
It’s a renegade province.
I guess building bases off the coast of the Philippines doesn’t count?
Djibouti must be getting full.
So European colonialism was bad, but China’s OK to do it.
This is all about oil. China is more dependent on middle eastern oil than we are.
They should have some good card games and drinking challenges at the local bars I reckun.. maybe the Philippines could send some rock bands.. have a real djibouti boogie fest..
China is closing off the Indian Ocean.
I know, right. And European colonialism was all about getting Africa into the 20th Century. Personally, aside from South Africa, I’d wish Europe would have stayed the Hell away from Africa and let them stew in their own feces.
China has at least a million citizens working in Africa; so
expect them to have military forces, carriers, cargo aircraft, etc. in the vicinity.
Plus, they need to protect the shipping lanes to keep the raw materials they need coming.
They are the Britain of the 21st century, so expect them to expand as necessary...
As the next rising superpower, they will be expanding their military and political influence. This includes colonies, spheres of influence, bases abroad- an imperial power in every sense.
More likely the 21st century reincarnation of Tojo's Japan. With a similar parabola. There will be many dead Americans at the end but unless we have zero survival instinct the finale will be tens of millions of dead Chinese and their fleet on the bottom of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and their cities and military bases ashes and ruins.
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