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nitpicker

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Fri May 3, 2019, 12:13 AM May 2019

China will build string of military bases around world, says Pentagon

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/03/china-will-build-string-of-military-bases-around-world-says-pentagon

China will build string of military bases around world, says Pentagon

Guardian staff and agencies

Fri 3 May 2019 02.06 BST

The US Defense Department expects China to add military bases around the world to protect its investments in it ambitious One Belt One Road global infrastructure program, according to an official report released on Thursday.

Beijing currently has just one overseas military base, in Djibouti, but is believed planning others, including possibly Pakistan, as it seeks to project itself as a global superpower.

“China’s advancement of projects such as the ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative (OBOR) will probably drive military overseas basing through a perceived need to provide security for OBOR projects,” the Pentagon said in its annual report to Congress on Chinese military and security developments.

“China will seek to establish additional military bases in countries with which it has a longstanding friendly relationship and similar strategic interests, such as Pakistan, and in which there is a precedent for hosting foreign militaries,” the report said.

That effort could be constrained by other countries’ wariness of hosting a full-time presence of the People’s Liberation Army, the report noted.

But target locations for military basing could include the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the western Pacific.
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China will build string of military bases around world, says Pentagon (Original Post) nitpicker May 2019 OP
one recalls the usa as a leader in global initiatives military or otherwise. til trump nt msongs May 2019 #1
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