{"id":57011,"date":"2023-07-27T20:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T11:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/27\/china-building-overseas-naval-bases-across-asia-and-africa-say-analysts"},"modified":"2023-07-27T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T13:22:28","slug":"china-building-overseas-naval-bases-across-asia-and-africa-say-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57011","title":{"rendered":"China may be planning overseas naval bases in Asia and Africa, say analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing believed to be aiming to rival US\u2019s global maritime power and defeat western sanctions, report concludes<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s military may be planning to build a host of overseas naval bases, as it hopes to protect shipping routes and strengthen its ability to resist sanctions from the US and its allies, analysis has found.<\/p>\n<p>Hambantota in Sri Lanka, Bata in Equatorial Guinea and Gwadar in Pakistan are the three most likely locations for a Chinese naval base to be established in the next two to five years, according to an analysis by AidData, a US-based research institute, published on Wednesday. The report\u2019s authors considered the amount of development financing issued by Chinese state-owned banks to port projects, the strategic value of existing infrastructure and strong relationships with host country governments, among other factors, to come up with a list of eight leading options for future Chinese naval bases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/27\/china-building-overseas-naval-bases-across-asia-and-africa-say-analysts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing believed to be aiming to rival US\u2019s global maritime power and defeat western sanctions, report concludesChina\u2019s military may be planning to build a host of overseas naval bases, as it hopes to protect shipping routes and strengthen its ability &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,41,50,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57024,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57011\/revisions\/57024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}