China Intends To Set Up Military Base On Africa’s Atlantic Coast U.S. Intel Reveals

Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh may have fallen victim to Beijing’s ‘debt-trap diplomacy,’ the think tanks worry, and Townsend believes that the ‘Chinese base [in Djibouti] is “turning into a platform to project power across the continent and its waters.” But China hasn’t stopped. It has been persistently looking for other basing opportunities [around Africa] for a “strategic strongpoint” for conducting anti-piracy operations in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the vital, and strategic 18 miles wide at its narrowest chokepoint Bab-el-Mandeb or “Gate of Tears,” a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, and Djibouti and Eritrea…