Comments on: China’s Military Base in Djibouti Exposes US Decline /region/north_america/chinas-military-base-in-djibouti-exposes-us-decline-30178/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:19:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ahmed /region/north_america/chinas-military-base-in-djibouti-exposes-us-decline-30178/#comment-36990 Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:19:14 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=51197#comment-36990 Djibouti is strategically situated and that in and of itself is sufficient reason for the Chinese to want a base there. And as the conflict that is raging in Yemen could well affect Chinese merchant vessels, there is a need for the Chinese to have a local base. The Chinese’s inability to dock anywhere in the region when they had to extract their citizens from Yemen further spurred them to seek a base at Djibouti.

]]> By: Ahmed /region/north_america/chinas-military-base-in-djibouti-exposes-us-decline-30178/#comment-36987 Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:15:47 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=51197#comment-36987 U.S decline? That’s a bit of a far stretch and exaggeration don’t you think?

The Chinese involvement with Djibouti merely reflects the Gulf of Aden and Bab el Mandeb Strait’s importance to world trade and the need for the Chinese to thwart pirates and militants from Somalia and Yemen respectively.

To say it signifies a U.S decline is a bit dramatic to be honest.

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