Tag: Chinese Overseas Bases
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U.S. Quietly Expands Secret Military Base in Israel
Pentagon documents reveal construction at a classified U.S. base, “Site 512”, located in Israel’s Negev desert, close to Gaza. The radar facility primarily monitors Iranian missile activity. Despite U.S. denial of planned troop deployment to Israel, the base features a $35.8 million troop facility. This highlights an increasing, yet clandestine, U.S. military presence in Israel.
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Ignore the Threat Inflation About Chinese Overseas Bases
By Daniel Larison Craig Singleton indulges in some old-fashioned threat inflation about Chinese ambitions for building overseas bases, and then says this: Policymakers in Washington must come to grips with the strategic depth of China’s moves and devise a strategy for pre-emptively neutralizing them, including incentives or punishments to persuade host governments to rebuff China’s…