{"id":30150,"date":"2020-09-07T14:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T14:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=30150"},"modified":"2020-09-07T14:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T14:17:04","slug":"china-mulls-setting-up-military-bases-in-four-african-countries-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=30150","title":{"rendered":"China mulls setting up military bases in four African countries \u2013Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Peoples Republic of China is seriously considering moves to set up military bases in four African countries, a report by the US Department of Defense revealed on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report mentioned Kenya, Seychelles, Tanzania and Angola among a dozen other countries where China<\/a> is considering setting up bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeyond its current base in Djibouti, the PRC [People\u2019s Republic of China] is very likely already considering and planning for additional overseas military logistics facilities to support naval, air, and ground forces,\u201d the report says in part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It further added that China has likely considered locations for military logistics facilities in Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Seychelles, Tanzania, Angola, and Tajikistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four African governments are yet to respond to the\u00a0report<\/a>, with some of the countries where the bases are to be set up denying being in discussions with China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Peoples Republic of China is seriously considering moves to set up military bases in four African countries, a report by the US Department of Defense revealed on Sunday. The report mentioned Kenya, Seychelles, Tanzania and Angola among a dozen other countries where China is considering setting up bases. \u201cBeyond its current base in Djibouti, the PRC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nChina mulls setting up military bases in four African countries \u2013Report » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=30150\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=30150#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Security\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=22\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"China mulls setting up military bases in four African countries \u2013Report\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"China mulls setting up military bases in four African countries \u2013Report » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=30150","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=30150#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Security","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=22"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"China mulls setting up military bases in four African countries \u2013Report"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=22\" rel=\"category\">Security<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Peoples Republic of China is seriously considering moves to set up military bases in four African countries, a report by the US Department of Defense revealed on Sunday. The report mentioned Kenya, Seychelles, Tanzania and Angola among a dozen other countries where China is considering setting up bases. \u201cBeyond its current base in Djibouti, the PRC…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30150"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}