China ‘Likely Considered’ Setting Up a Military Base in SL

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A US Department of Defence report says China has likely considered setting up a military base in Sri Lanka. The report released on 3 November 2021, titled ‘Military and Security Developments, involving the People’s Republic of China’, notes that PRC is seeking to establish a more robust overseas logistics and basing infrastructure to allow the PLA to project and sustain military power at greater distances.

Beyond its current base in Djibouti, the PRC is very likely already considering and planning for additional overseas military logistics facilities to support naval, air, and ground forces. The PRC has likely considered locations for PLA military logistics facilities in Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Seychelles, Tanzania, Angola, and Tajikistan. The PRC and Cambodia have publicly denied having signed an agreement to provide the People’s Liberation Army, Navy with access to Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base.

It further notes that the PRC has increasingly recognised that its armed forces should take a more active role in advancing its foreign policy goals.

As the PRC’s overseas interests have grown over the past two decades, the Party’s leaders have increasingly pushed the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to think about how it will operate beyond China’s borders and its immediate periphery to advance and defend these interests....

 
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