China establishes base in Djibouti
China is sending troops to it’s new “support base” in East Africa in the nation of Djibouti according to the Telegraph;
China started building its base in Djibouti just over a year ago.
It is stationed just a few miles from a US camp, and France and Japan also have bases in the nation, which is about the size of Wales.
A report by China’s official Xinhua news agency said the decision to set up the base was “made by the two countries after friendly negotiations”.
The report added: “The base will ensure China’s performance of missions, such as escorting, peace-keeping and humanitarian aid in Africa and west Asia.
“The base will also be conducive to overseas tasks including military cooperation, joint exercises, evacuating and protecting overseas Chinese and emergency rescue, as well as jointly maintaining security of international strategic seaways.”
Stars & Stripes reports that China is currently engaged in live fire exercises in preparation for training with the Russians in the Mediterranean.
In a demonstration of the Chinese navy’s expanding global reach, the country’s latest-generation warships conducted live-firing drills in the Mediterranean Sea this week while en route to joint exercises with the Russian navy, the defense ministry said Wednesday.
The destroyer Hefei, frigate Yuncheng and support ship Luomahu took part in Monday’s drills involving the ship’s deck guns and small arms, the ministry said in a notice on its website.
If I remember correctly, Tom Clancy predicted this in one of his last novels before he passed – that China would establish bases in Africa. They also have a sizable corporate presence in South America which will eventually require military support.
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Djibouti?
I hardly knew her!
I marvel at the late Tom Clancy’s ability to build stories that reflect the real world so accurately, although I think he went a bit light on the Muslim’s propensity for jihad.
Things are getting interesting.
Djibouti…..The armpit of CENTCOM.
I have also heard that some of the Chinese contract manufacturers are looking to Africa as a potential low-cost labor area now that Chinese wages have risen (almost to US levels in buying power.)Saw a refernce the other day to a big CM checking out Ethiopia as a potential manufacturing site.
“If I remember correctly, Tom Clancy predicted this in one of his last novels before he passed – that China would establish bases in Africa.”
In Command Authority he also predicted the Russian invasion of Crimea.
The Command Authority book freaked me out after Crimea. I read it again after the invasion – amazing!
Ditto
Well China also had a base on camp Navstar kuwait to keep a eye/ear on us. If was well hidden a Red Cross flag.
Yes they did same thing when we had a camp In Pakistan in 2005-2006 doing CA/HA work after the earthquake. The camp was right next to us. They also had same type missions in South Central America when I was on a Task Force down there. They have been doing the same thing as us all over “Harts and Minds” CA/HA stuff. They did same when we went in after Haiti Earthquake. This is just more in your face then they have been doing, leads back to testing Obama and stepping on him.
Africa has a cheap source of labor, untapped natural resources and a large body of first world folks who would like to move to second world status on cheap chinese goods and services
Why anyone is surprised is beyond me
No different reasons than why the Europeans went there
They have been testing waters in South/Central America also.
Isn’t there a Chicom firm running the Panama Canal?
Thank you, Jimmah Carter.
The Panamanians just brought the Canal up to date (dredging and widening the locks). The Chinese did most of the work. They also run the port facilities on both ends of the Canal.
There was one line in the article I read elsewhere that mentioned that strategic interests of the straights they are nearby that lead to the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean…..something something, millions of barrels of oil transported through there….yada yada…..hmmm.
Get used to it – China will make moves all over the globe, since Trump is abdicating his responsibility as the global leader. Nature abhors a vacuum…..
Must feel damp and chilly inder that bridge you live under.
Or his Momma’s basement.
For some reason, I get a chuckle out of you guys.
You reality challenged shit-n-run trolls are almost entertaining. I guess in your parallel universe “0” was this masterful world leader because of his all powerful speechifying and ever moving red lines.
Joey is waiting for the rolling estate plan proposed by Louise Crabtree to come to pass.
How’s that Bernie candidacy going there, Joey Nutsack? You did go BALLS DEEP for BERNIE, didn’t you?
Huh? This post has nothing to do with Bernie. Back on topic, if you don’t think a patient, opportunistic country like China is going to take advantage of our current incompetence, isolationism, and apathy, you’re either naive or stupid. They are already making trade deals with a disgusted Japan and Europe. Trump is such an idiot he thinks everything is a zero-sum game, he cannot comprehend a win-win deal. And as a country we are about to be on the wrong side of a bunch of zero-sum games. He has pushed numerous countries into the arms of China.
Joey, just the fact you do not understand the enmity between China and Japan or have a grasp of the current situation speaks volumes.
Japan is under direct threat from N Korea (you know…a Chinese proxy) and they are in a serious dispute with China by being under threat from Chinese expansion in disputed islands (the Spratleys among them).
Personally. I am looking to see China expand its involvement with combating Islamic terrorism. As for Europe, we are seeing the results of their “leadership” and your hero Obama’s fecklessness.
Still talking shit, Joey Nutsack? Go back into that hole you live in and keep on wishing for that unicorn that Comrade Bernie promised you… assclown
I’m waiting for him to blame China’s hold on the Panama Canal and the port islands on Trump.
Obviously, Joey only comes out of his Fog of Disconnect from the Land of Reality when he sees Trump doing something that was already going on before Trump was elected. For example, the dispute over the Spratly Islands and China’s land grab in the South China Sea was going on DURING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
Main article: Great wall of sand
China has conducted a land reclamation project which had built at least seven artificial islands in the South China Sea totaling 2000 acres in size by mid 2015.[8] One artificial island built on Fiery Cross Reef near the Spratly Islands is now the site of a military barracks, lookout tower and a runway long enough to handle Chinese military aircraft. – Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent (20 May 2015). “Exclusive: China warns U.S. spy plane”. CNN. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
This business with Djibouti and China was underway LOOOOOONNNGG before Trump ever took office.
This is NOT some new thing that just happened. China established relations with Djibouti in 1979.
Try to catch up on things, Joey. Blaming Trump for something that began WHEN JIMMIE CARTER was in office shows what an ignoramus you are.
He’s still huffing unicorn farts… despondent that Comrade Bernie and his swank wife are not in the White House and under investigation by the FBI for lying on a loan for the college that had to close it’s doors.
Something about bank fraud, wasn’t it? Six hundred grand later, the school is out of business. I wonder how many alumni are asking themselves if their degrees are now worth anything at all, especially in things like accounting and lab sciences (biology, chemistry, physics, etc.)