Posted on 08/11/2021 1:00:49 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
President Joe Biden’s administration is attempting to block China’s efforts to establish a military base in the Middle East by warning regional powers that such a partnership with Beijing would jeopardize their security relationship with the United States.
“There are certain categories of cooperation with the PRC that we cannot live with,” the State Department’s Mira Resnick, a deputy assistant secretary in the bureau of political-military affairs, told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee. “And we have made that clear.”
Sen. Chris Murphy, the Connecticut Democrat who chaired the hearing, prompted that answer by emphasizing the paradox of Middle East governments discussing arms deals with China while “hoping to maintain [their life under] a U.S. security umbrella.” Whereas former President Donald Trump cited China’s desire to sell weapons in the region to justify U.S. arms deals with Saudi Arabia and others, the dialogue Tuesday put a spotlight on the degree to which security ties to the U.S. could also provide Washington with leverage.
“The current assessment is that China has a global strategy of pursuing military installations all over, including in the Middle East,” the Defense Department’s Dana Stroul, the deputy assistant secretary for the Middle East, added in the conversation. "So, in any country with which we have a deep partnership, we talk about the risks — to U.S. defense technology, to U.S. forces — of a Chinese military installation.”
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Ooh, that should frighten them.
Appropriate policy.
If the feckless bastards have the will to follow through.
China is allowed to buy land right next to US military bases here in the USA!!!
” Iran is also talking about a joint Chinese/Russian base on their soil. “
Russia has no interest in such folly. They know the Iranians are crazy and cannot be controlled/managed.
The Chinese, not so much.
We have people running our government that are total morons.
While they give such advice to other countries, they allow the Chinese to buy a huge tract in Texas in close proximity to a major military installation.
They allow the Chinese to gain a huge foothold in our universities, both as professors and students, all of which do their best to corrupt our students, steal defense technology and propagandize.
We appear to the rest of the world as fools, and really are for allowing this madness to continue.
Russia might not be interested, but the Prime Mistake of Kanadahar (formerly known as Canada), Justin(e) True-dope, is interested in a JOINT base, anywhere and anytime. Anything to do with joints, he’s all in.
At the beginning of WWI the Germans had a base in the far east. Cut off from resupply they gathered the ships that could make the trek and started home via South America. They sent one ship into the Indian Ocean. Actually, that is one HELL of a good story. The SMS Emden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Emden
This is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51FXgQOoppw
The Democrats are just pretending to object, all the while they support China in every move they make to subjugate this nation. RINOs, and all know who they are as they just supported Dems in subjugation on the anti-American infrastructure bill, support subjugating the USA to the atheist communists too.
They could project power from Somalia, Tanzania, Sudan etc too. In fact, they could overrun those countries and turn them into a Chinese province without missing the citizens they send to colonize them.
ooooowwww....bet that skeered em.
Nothing like a bunch of purple/yellow-haired non-binaries to skeer em reaaal good.
We have no allies in the Middle East.
Funny.
Instead of a base why can’t a country there be the next province of China? Currently 23 provinces. Then China could demand no one trespass to enter their sovereign Chinese territory.
Another reason it’s bad for the US to go without a leader. As now.
So the CCP controls the Panama Canal, and has control over a California naval base? And the government want to tell the mideast not to give China a base? Ha
You were right to not request that be placed in Breaking News.
Why didn’t the coward warn our Middle East ENEMIES, I wonder?
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