Posted on 04/28/2023 7:20:27 PM PDT by bitt
Evidence of potential construction of a Chinese military site has been observed by American spy services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Washington Post obtained top-secret intelligence that the construction activity had been identified around Abu Dhabi in December 2022. Those documents were leaked by National Guardsman Jack Teixeira on a Discord server, who faces 15 years in prison.
The activity in question occurred around a year after the UAE, a US ally, had announced that they would stop the construction after US officials suggested that the area would end up being used by Beijing for military purposes, per the report. Now, the US is reportedly under the assumption that the recent activity in the area is a product of the UAE attempting to strengthen its relationship with China, as Beijing attempts to bolster its global military infrastructure.
Though the US has been keeping a close watch on construction activity around the Khalifa Port, China and the UAE have continued to maintain that the port venture is nothing more than commercial, per the International Business Times. In late 2021, the UAE announced that it had brought the construction of a Chinese shipping port to a stop, at the behest of the US.
According to one of the documents released on Discord, the facility “likely was connected with municipal power and water” and “a walled perimeter was completed for a PLA logistics storage site.” A second document suggested that the PLA facility was “a major part” of China’s development of establishing a military base in the UAE.
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If we had a real President and Congress, they’d be United in telling every member of BRICS and those looking to join that:
the US is more or less closed.
Diplomatic staff in all countries will be dramatically reduced and their presence in the us is going to be cut drastically.
No more visas, or any kind, to any students or IT folks looking to come over
No more Saudis coming over to party in LA, NYC, MiamI, etc. They want to go to school in a foreign country, let them go to China.
As for military bases in want of those countries, time to bring everyone home and all the gear. No more advisors. No more training. No more anything.
If we had a real President and Congress. We don’t so we’ll continue to be treated like the town bicycle.
It is said, “Nature abhors a vacuum,” So does Geo Politics.
Thanks to demonrats and feckless conservatives there is an international geopolitical vacuum. The PRC is attempting to fill said vacuum.
Who in the heck is leaking like a sieve
“Diplomatic staff in all countries will be dramatically reduced and their presence in the us is going to be cut drastically.’
If you’d knew what the US “diplomats” are doing, you’d also know that everybody would join BRICS just for a sake of it.
I’m a bit more concerned about what the CCP is doing in Central and South America.
Our nation is collapsing HERE, now, in real time.
Nothing in East Asia or West Asia or East Europe matters the hair on a rat’s ass.
Let’s go Brandon.
5.56mm
I do know. I used to do security for them in Iraq.
Musk cut 80% of the jobs at Twitter and no one noticed.
You could do the same with the State Dept.
We have massive embassies in Europe. Sole purpose is to give young FSOs and staff an opportunity to live and party in Europe for free. Their kids go to the most exclusive schools.
They’re gross people. We used to eavesdrop on their dinner talk. Insane.
The Chinese won’t be sending over their ‘elites’ to give speeches for $10,000 a minute like our tacky politicians... to ‘do business’...
Wonder how many commenters on this thread knew that the US has been operating bases in the UAE for years with thousands of servicemen stationed there, and in Qatar, and in Saudi, and ....
But China, yeah, they’re the imperialist warmongers.
Oh come on. There is no military secrecy about knowing that the Chinese are building a military base in another country. How do you suppose they would hide it? They were denying it but that is to be expected. But there is a newspaper mentioned that seemed to know so how does us knowing make it a leak of a military secret?
yup
imagine also what they’ve been doing around the panama canal good ol’ jimmah gave up
Those bastards! Under the rules based international order only the US is allowed to build military bases in other countries.
What do they mean a site? The Chinese have had a military presence in Saudi since 2017 when they established their first site at Djibouti that has remained ever since. There’s more.
wy69
First thing that pops up when the UAE does is. is Jho Low...donor to Obama and Clinton. The guy fleeced Malaysian taxpayers...
UAE-related....
https://www.thenational.ae/business/gulftainer-subsidiary-wins-50-year-us-port-concession-1.717579
Gulftainer subsidiary wins 50-year US port concession
Sharjah-based ports operator plans to invest $580m in the Port of Willmington, Delaware
March 31, 2018
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