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China Eyes More Bases in Africa, US Military Official Says
https://www.voanews.com ^ | April 22, 2021 | By Jeff Seldin

Posted on 04/23/2021 11:50:55 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

U.S. forces in Africa are keeping a watchful eye on China, worried Beijing is getting closer to establishing a network of military and naval bases across the continent.

"We know the Chinese desire a network of bases around the globe," the head of U.S. Africa Command, General Stephen Townsend, told lawmakers Thursday, adding, "My concern is the greatest along the Atlantic coast of Africa."

China established its first military base in on Africa’s east coast, in Doraleh, Djibouti, in 2017, raising concern among U.S. military officials who described the Chinese facility as being “right outside our gates” of the U.S. base at Camp Lemonnier.

Townsend said that since then, Beijing has

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KEYWORDS: beltandroad; ccp; ww1
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1 posted on 04/23/2021 11:50:55 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

Good luck with all that.


2 posted on 04/23/2021 11:51:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Send the woke and transvestite forces to counter them. Its our strength, remember?


3 posted on 04/23/2021 11:52:54 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: RomanSoldier19

I’m surprised they haven’t started serious colonization yet.


4 posted on 04/23/2021 11:54:20 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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That said, they may meet their match with Africa.

https://www.kimdutoit.com/2017/05/05/let-africa-sink/


5 posted on 04/23/2021 11:55:09 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

They have, in a roundabout way. The bases will just make it easier to secure their holdings.


6 posted on 04/23/2021 11:55:49 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: RomanSoldier19
They want Africa's natural resources.

It's the same reason the Eugenicists/Globalists won't allow Electrification of Africa.

7 posted on 04/23/2021 11:57:34 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Maybe they just want a weekend at Wakanda?


8 posted on 04/23/2021 11:58:14 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: RomanSoldier19

More “living space”.

For hitler it was Ukraine. For china it is Africa. You gotta admit they are picking the REAL last frontier. Those military clans and enclaves would not have a chance against Chinese enforcers coming in by the hundreds of thousands. They would probably really clean that continent up.

And yeah, that includes South Africa.


9 posted on 04/23/2021 12:01:51 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Oh, yeah, the U.S. is keeping an EYE on Africa. And what, pray tell, are we going to do about it? Send them a stern letter? Tell them they are racist, since the vast majority of native Africans are BLACK. Sic our tranny and transgender troops on them and have them die from laughter? SlowJo&Ho and the just plain idiots behind them deserve the world's laughter and contempt, and nothing more.

Feel safer now?

10 posted on 04/23/2021 12:05:40 PM PDT by EinNYC
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Oh no! Not Africa !!


11 posted on 04/23/2021 12:11:05 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange )
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To: RomanSoldier19

They can have all the Africa they want.

Nobody else but the Muslims wants it.


12 posted on 04/23/2021 12:18:03 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: dfwgator

Foolish of Red China to set up bases in the very same places being evacuated by “climate refugees”.

/s


13 posted on 04/23/2021 12:35:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Shhh. The globalists need their eternal conflicts. Hence this attempt to scare us about Chinese influence in Africa. Banks and NGOs need African intervention policies in the West. It’s their bread and butter. They know nothing will improve. But the gravy train must roll on.


14 posted on 04/23/2021 12:41:59 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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China doesn’t have a population that will object to anything they do in Africa.


15 posted on 04/23/2021 12:42:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Another (alarming) China article: [oughta read, IMO]

China is pretty much decimating most ocean fishing areas of the world.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17297/china-fishing-fleet


16 posted on 04/23/2021 12:44:33 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: dfwgator

Doesn’t matter. Africa will eat up China too. The Belgians already tried that mass murder thing. Where are they today? Sitting in Brussels and issuing insane unenforceable edicts to other countries.


17 posted on 04/23/2021 12:47:10 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Good point, we’ll see.


18 posted on 04/23/2021 12:48:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FreedomPoster; RomanSoldier19
FreedomPoster :" I’m surprised they haven’t started serious colonization yet. "

Oh, it's coming soon enough; it sorta like a python which entraps you to provide something that you really want;
but it is at an undisclosed cost to you, which is not revealed until you can't reimburse, or cover the expense.
They threaten to call in your collateral in a series of incremental steps
Then they trade-off saying we'll build you an international airport (which we operate), provided we can build you a harbor and seaport (which we alone operate).
All the while, you are gradually surrendering your own national sovereignty and control at what you think is a small price, but the price and demands continue to grow.

Need a recent example ?
Doctor Tedros is the first African Director-General to be appointed to the WHO, at China's insistence,
and the Somali is the first in its 72-year history to not be a medical doctor, nor has he ever practiced medicine.
It seems that China has built expensive roadways, hospitals, stadiums, and electrical generators in Somalia, under the auspices of the "belt and road" tactical economic system.
Little wonder why Dr. Tedros, placed in the Who position by China, supported their initial denial about covid, encouraged international travel without restraint,
and further supported the China claim that it wasn't infectious "human-to-human", thus delaying international medical preparations while China scooped up all the PPE supplies it could muster.
Incidentally, Somalia has the longest coastline in all of Africa, which incidentally sits strategically in the most opportune location for maritime travel ;
furthermore, Africa has many precious minerals and rare earth deposits that remain untapped due to warring factions.
Chinese colonies are just a matter of time, and opportunity.

20 posted on 04/23/2021 12:58:02 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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