Posted on 05/20/2020 1:04:30 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The Djibouti base is one of the largest that China has built overseas
The U.S. also has a military base in Djibouti
Beijing views Djibouti as its gateway to the African continent
he Chinese Navy has constructed a huge and highly impenetrable fortress in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa that appears to be designed to receive large warships. Satellite images suggest the Chinese have recently expanded and upgraded this strategic base.
Asia Times reported that, based on satellite images, the Djibouti base is one of the largest that China has built overseas. The fortress even features such items as battlements, shooting ports and corner towers. The base also boasts vehicle checkpoints, perimeter fencing with razor wire, vehicle barriers and big concrete doors.
Forbes reported that the base could potentially receive aircraft carriers.
Construction of the base commenced in 2016 and was essentially finished by the spring of the following year at a cost of some $590 million.
Armored vehicles including ZBD-09 infantry fighting vehicles and ZTL-11 assault guns have reportedly been seen on the base. These vehicles are armed with automatic cannons, anti-tank missiles and large caliber guns.
The U.S. also has a military base in Djibouti the Navys Expeditionary Base at Camp Lemonnier but its defenses pale in comparison to its Chinese peer.
Asia Times speculated that China may be trying to avoid the fate of some U.S. military bases which have suffered attacks, including in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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“The fortress even features such items as battlements, shooting ports and corner towers. The base also boasts vehicle checkpoints, perimeter fencing with razor wire, vehicle barriers and big concrete doors”
Excellent immobile targets to be pre-targeted for Tomahawk missiles.
They’ve been making all kinds of moves, thanks to our financing them. The Djibouti presence is for increased hegemony. They’re awfully full of P & V these days. You bet djibouti they are.
“The U.S. also has a military base in Djibouti”
Kind of answers the question, doesn’t it?
Why do we have a base there?
Been many years since I was there but bet it’s still nasty
One of Deng’s legacies is China’s current strategy of maximizing “Comprehensive National Power”. This includes economic power (GDP, natural resources, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, owning America’s national debt), military power (cyberwarfare, anti-aircraft-carrier ballistic missiles, anti-satellite missiles), and ‘soft power’ (cultural prestige, the Beijing Olympics, tourism, Chinese films and contemporary art, Confucius Institutes, Shanghai’s skyscrapers). But crucially, Comprehensive National Power also includes “biopower”: creating the world’s highest-quality human capital in terms of the Chinese population’s genes, health, and education (see Governing China’s Population by Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin Winkler).
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838
The Chinese are good at walls. Perhaps they could extend our southern border wall around the western state and call it CHYNAfornia...one of their provinces. That would pay off the debt and them some. Internal totalitarians could move to CHYNAfornia and be in their paradise.
Let’s do it. WIN/WIN.
Asia Times reported that, based on satellite images, the Djibouti base is one of the largest that China has built overseas. The fortress even features such items as battlements, shooting ports and corner towers. The base also boasts vehicle checkpoints, perimeter fencing with razor wire, vehicle barriers and big concrete doors.
Let’s hold off getting rid of the remaining battleships.
Well, DUH! To control the Red Sea and ultimately the Suez Canal.
Are people really this ignorant of military strategy?
Rare Earth Minerals
I imagine for the same reason we have military bases all over the world - to exert influence and protect interests.
Gotta put all these bad boys somewhere...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-army-nuclear-specialreport/special-report-chinas-furtive-underwater-nukes-test-the-pentagon-idUSKCN1S80YB
For B-52 target practice?
Because that’s where ships go to get to a very important canal, that’s where pirates come to play... Several reasons.
I personally like the somewhat open secret of Russian false flag sail boat cruises best. For a small price, you can go on a cruise and shoot up Somali pirates. Of course former Russian Spetsnaz will give you a quick class and make sure everything stays fun and safe (if anything goes sideways, they will take care of it). After you shoot them up you get to pay according to how many you shot (that sounds pretty capitalistic, LOL).
https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/3b5jgb/i-was-attacked-by-pirates
i happen to think this Communist Chinese military base will prove extremely dangerous in future. Just looking at its location is plenty of worry
Journalists are, as are people who only get their news from the MSM.
Journolists know better, but they are fighting for the other team.
We Spy on each other...
1) useful place from which to kill Islamists who congregate in Yemen and Somalia.
2) sits along our primarily sea lane to the Middle East. We opened the base back in 2002.
3) secure place from which to monitor piracy along and near Somalia and protect trade routes.
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