China will grow larger https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/25/

>>33124682
The first of many to come.

As the west goes into demographic decline and dies

China grows ever larger

>Can't project power via aircraft carrier so they do it by building basses.
Wouldn't much more assets be useful in the SEA area though? Seems like a bit of a waste in my opinion.

>>33125096
The US also relies on their bases for power projection. Even a nuclear carrier is useless without forward supply bases.

>>33125102
So why set one up halfway around the world then? Even then, why not Sub-Saharan Africa where they're providing assets to them.

>>33125300
Because China is present around the Gulf of Aden for nearly 10 years due to their counter piracy patrols.
They used Djibouti as a supply base for a long time already - now, they upgrade to a full fledged military base.

>>33125400
Huh, neat. Thought their presence in Africa was in the sub saharan. Do they have anything there by any chance that are the likes of a full fledged military base?

>>33125300
>Why set up a permanent base in one of the most strategically important and crisis-prone region of the world?

Really?

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>China will grow larger

Then they'll sink more frequently.

>>33125096
China is investing heavily in Africa, so they plan to secure their interests in the region the old fashioned way- put a military base there. Also, what if the US military power declines, and the security they provide across the globe lessens? Someone has to be ready to fill the vacuum

>>33125096

You are chronically retarded.

>>33125048
>china
>demographic decline
pick two

>>33125048
Meanwhile the west already has military bases in Djibouti.

>>33124682
What's gonna happen when the honeymoon wears off and the Africans realize the Chinese are 10x shittier colonizers than the West ever was?

At least the Europeans gave them trains and shit. Chinese just take and take and act like greedy assholes.

>>33128163
They already have, there's nothing they can do. They can't just tell the Chinks that they don't like them anymore and they should go. They are Chinese property now.

>>33128163
>West takes over your country and takes everything without paying
>Chinese don't take over your country and pay for everything they take

Wow I wonder which one is more popular?

>>33124682
>China will grow larger
...until being eclipsed by india.

>>33128163
>At least the Europeans gave them trains and shit. Chinese just take and take and act like greedy assholes.

From the article:
>the Chinese are paying $20 million a year in rent on top of the billions they are spending to finance critical infrastructure, including ports and airports, a new rail line and a pipeline that will bring desperately needed drinking water from neighboring Ethiopia.

>>33125048
>what is one child policy

Why are Americans such paranoid weirdos that they don't let servicemen in Djibouti mingle with the locals? Shouldn't that generate a fuckton of goodwill and also keep up the morale of the troops?

>>33128112
there's a reason china is being so absurdly aggressive right now. they'll only have the capitol to do so for a short period, they must make gains before the social recession they've inadvertently engineered hits them and couples with their economic bubble.

>>33128547
Why would you want to? African niggers are literally the worst people on the planet.

>>33130036
Northeast African girls are cute af

>>33130055
^

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>>33130319
Like this one who is ethnically Ethiopian

>>33124682
Would be funny if China builds bases all over the world near US ones.
>War breaks out.
>The two bases would race to fuck each other up while the neutral party in the conflict gets BTFO in between them.

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>>33130036
>Why would you want to? African niggers are literally the worst people on the planet.
Idk, Chinks in Africa manage to spot qts.

IMO the sheboon type is pretty much American.

>>33125102
>Even a nuclear carrier is useless without forward supply bases.

We have supply ships from MSC on station in every major body of water 24/7, 365 days a year. Every overseas US naval base could blow up and we would still have a way of getting at least one aircraft carrier group across the world.

>>33130610
The slaves taken by Western nations are all part of the Bantu culture group originally from the horn of Africa that emigrated outward into central and southern Africa in the Medieval era. Eastern Africans are not part of that group and don't look like that.

>>33128163
Chinese how so much spare money they are investing in Africa so their money is tied up in things with real value, rather than stocks and housing markets in China.

>>33131073
Of course, that doesn't mean they'll go light on Canada all the sudden. The Leaf will stay homeless.

>>33124682
ok, so will my dick

>>33124682
Shit, I didn't know that Chinks has oversea base.

need to do something damn

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>>33124682
The only guy winning in all this is Ismail Omar Guelleh, the "president" of Djibouti. He is laughing all the way to the bank. Even Japan has increased their military there.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-military-djibouti-idUSKCN12D0C4

You can list all 3 major European powers, France, Germany and Britain with military personnel there. The US with a large base plus Japan and now China. ALL paying to be there. Djibouti might as well be Ft. Knox, Gibraltar and NORAD rolled into one with half the world's militaries based there. Eritrea must be angry (their only real enemy).

>>33124682
>ten years in the future
>diplomatic relations with china breakdown and they stake a claim on djibouti
>America and its allies invade to remove eggroll
>war is forever immortalized as the Djibouti Shooty

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>>33131073
>everything is "fake" value in China

These delusions don't stop trillions of dollars from being invested in China.

>>33128547
That's how the locals get raped, and then political shitstorms ensue.

>>33130666
That may be true, but it's kind of missing the point.

>>33124682
Good. Let all these shitbag Third World outhouses be somebody else's problem.

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>>33134402

>>33130610
>IMO the sheboon type is pretty much American.

Agreed. It's as much cultural as it is physical. Take them out of the jungle and let them stop spending all day just trying not to got their skulls perforated by a lion and they're bound the pick up some stupid shit.

>>33130525
That's Egyptian blood, no question.

>>33128547
>mingle
they use to allow "mingling" on Okinawa, surprisingly locals were not happy about it

>>33128547
Because Al-Shabaab and Puerto Ricans

>>33124682
ARMA 3 campaign in Djibouti, fun.

I wonder how awkward it will be when we go to war with the PRC.

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>>33134402
>remove eggroll