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China attempting to build military base on the Atlantic Ocean
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IANS | 06 Dec, 2021
China is attempting to woo Equatorial Guinea into allowing them to build
a military base off their coast, according to a report - a move which
would give Beijing a foothold in the Atlantic, and deeply worry
Washington, Daily Mail reported.
US intelligence officials
believe that China's President Xi Jinping is hoping to convince the
president of the West African nation, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, to
allow expansion of an existing port in the city of Bata, and conversion
into a military base, the report said.
Were China to convert the
Bata port into a military base, it would enable Beijing to repair and
rearm their warships and other naval equipment in the same waters in
which the US Eastern Seaboard sits, the report added.
"As part of
our diplomacy to address maritime-security issues, we have made clear
to Equatorial Guinea that certain potential steps involving (Chinese)
activity there would raise national-security concerns," a senior Biden
administration official told The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
Officials
have previously mooted a Chinese military base in Atlantic waters as a
nightmare scenario for the US, amid tensions between the two nations
over Taiwan and the origins of Covid, the report added.
China
only has one overseas military base, in Djibouti, in East Africa, which
it opened in 2017. That sits on the other side of the African continent,
and looks out onto the waters of the Gulf of Aden.
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