China has taken a decisive step towards establishing a maritime force that can reach across the Indian Ocean with its first deployment of troops to its military facility in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa.
China has presented the facility as a support base to run anti-piracy operations in waters along Africa’s east coast as well as peacekeeping and humanitarian missions in the region.
But given it sits at the shipping choke point of the Gulf of Aden…
July 12, 2017 at 10:30PM http://ift.tt/2uj6u4S
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