{"id":2410,"date":"2017-07-18T19:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2017-07-18T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T19:22:35","slug":"china-officially-sets-up-its-first-overseas-base-in-djibouti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/18\/china-officially-sets-up-its-first-overseas-base-in-djibouti\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA OFFICIALLY SETS UP ITS FIRST OVERSEAS BASE IN DJIBOUTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/Djibouti-naval-base.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2411\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/Djibouti-naval-base-1024x823.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/Djibouti-naval-base-1024x823.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/Djibouti-naval-base-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/Djibouti-naval-base-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/Djibouti-naval-base-560x450.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/Djibouti-naval-base-260x209.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/Djibouti-naval-base-160x129.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/Djibouti-naval-base.jpg 1262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : The Diplomat<\/p>\n<p>By Charlotte Gao<\/p>\n<p>On July 11, China officially dispatched military personnel to set up\u00a0its\u00a0first-ever overseas base in Djibouti, the small country in East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>While foreign media call the new facility a \u201cmilitary\u201d base, China instead calls it a\u00a0\u201csupport base,\u201d which \u201cwill ensure China\u2019s performance of missions, such as escorting, peace-keeping, and humanitarian aid in Africa and west Asia,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2017-07\/11\/c_136435716.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to <em>Xinhua<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> China\u2019s news agency.<\/p>\n<p>In the early morning of July 11, China held an official ceremony in the port of Zhanjiang, south China\u2019s Guangdong province. The commander of China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), Shen Jinlong, \u201cread an order on constructing the base in Djibouti, and conferred military flag on the fleets.\u201d Then Shen ordered, \u201cSet off!\u201d and the ships carrying Chinese military personnel departed the port, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/politics\/2017-07\/11\/c_1121302146.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported <em>Xinhua<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Image Sourced : The New York Times<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2017\/07\/china-officially-sets-up-its-first-overseas-base-in-djibouti\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : The Diplomat By Charlotte Gao On July 11, China officially dispatched military personnel to set up\u00a0its\u00a0first-ever overseas base in Djibouti, the small country in East Africa. While foreign media call the new facility a \u201cmilitary\u201d base, China instead calls it a\u00a0\u201csupport base,\u201d which \u201cwill ensure China\u2019s performance of missions, such as escorting, peace-keeping,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/18\/china-officially-sets-up-its-first-overseas-base-in-djibouti\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINA OFFICIALLY SETS UP ITS FIRST OVERSEAS BASE IN DJIBOUTI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,1606,1363,1605],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-chinas-peoples-liberation-army-navy-plan","tag-djibouti","tag-east-africa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}