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Beijing Is Going Places—and Building Naval Bases

Here are the top destinations that might be next.

— July 27, 2023 | By Alexander Wooley and Sheng Zhang | Foreign Policy

People welcome China’s space-tracking ship Yuanwang-5 at Sri Lanka’s Hambantota International Port in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, on Aug. 16, 2022. Ajith Perera/Xinhua Via Getty Images

China famously built its first overseas base, a launchpad for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), in Djibouti in 2017. Where will it build the next one?

To answer that question, the authors drew on a new AidData data set that focuses on ports and infrastructure construction financed by Chinese state-owned entities in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2021 and implemented between 2000 and 2023. The detailed data set captures 123 seaport projects at 78 ports in 46 countries, worth a combined $29.9 billion.

A core assumption of our analysis is that Chinese financing and construction of harbor and related infrastructure, either through foreign aid or investment, is one indicator of ports or bases that might serve the PLAN in times of peace or war. And with reason: Chinese law mandates that nominally civilian ports provide logistic support to the Chinese navy if, as, and when needed. Financial ties established through port construction and expansion are enduring, with a long-term life cycle to the relationship. Beijing also sees a corresponding nonmonetary debt to its outlays: The larger the investment, the more leverage China should have to ask for favors.

Our data reveals that China is a maritime superpower ashore as well as afloat, with extraordinary ties in the world’s low- and middle-income countries. Chinese state-owned banks have lent $499 million to expand the port of Nouakchott, Mauritania, a nation where the total GDP is around $10 billion. Freetown, in Sierra Leone, has seen its port financed to the tune of $759 million, in a country where total GDP is $4 billion. It is a worldwide portfolio, stretching even to the Caribbean. The symbolic beachhead there is Antigua and Barbuda, where in late 2022, Chinese entities spent $107 million to complete the expansion of wharfage and sea walls at St. John’s Port, dredge the harbor, and build shoreside facilities.

Drawing a connection between an ostensibly commercial investment and future naval bases may seem odd to those unfamiliar with China’s way of doing business. But a Chinese port construction or operating company can be traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and also be an official government entity. Among the major players in port construction is China Communications Construction Company, Ltd. (CCCC), a majority state-owned, publicly traded, multinational engineering and construction company. One of its port subsidiaries is China Harbour Engineering Company, Ltd. (CHEC). Both are major players in building ports overseas. In 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce sanctioned CCCC for its role in constructing artificial islands in the South China Sea.

To narrow down the basing options, we applied other criteria too, including strategic location, size of port and depth of water, and potential host country relations with Beijing—measured, for example, by alignment in voting in the U.N. General Assembly. Where available, we also drew on publicly available satellite imagery as well as geospatial mapping sources and techniques.

From this, we arrived at a shortlist of the eight most likely candidates for a future PLAN base: Hambantota, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰; Bata, Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶; Gwadar, Pakistan 🇵🇰; Kribi, Cameroon 🇨🇲; Ream, Cambodia 🇰🇭; Luganville, Vanuatu 🇻🇺; Nacala, Mozambique 🇲🇿; and Nouakchott, Mauritania 🇲🇷.

Chinese-Funded Port Infrastructure and Most Likely Naval Base Locations

Chinese state-owned entities have committed $29.9 billion to finance 123 projects to expand or construct 78 ports in 46 countries from 2000-2021. This map shows formally approved, active, or completed projects for 49 ports and highlights the eight locations of those most likely to be used as Chinese naval bases.

Note: Map excludes pledged funding and canceled or suspended projects. Russia’s port of Sabetta (the Yamal liquefied natural gas project) is also excluded. It has received an estimated $14.9 billion from China; however, researchers were unable to disaggregate the amount that went solely to the Sabetta seaport. Map By Sarina Patterson/AidData. Source: AidData/William & Mary

Ousting or outflanking the United States in the Western Pacific is a priority for Beijing, as is challenging the United States, India, and the rest of the so-called Quad alliance in the Indian Ocean. And more than half of our shortlist is indeed Indo-Pacific-oriented, as is Djibouti. What’s surprising is the intensity of Chinese investment, including in ports, on the Atlantic side of Africa. Factoring in Chinese port operators, China is more active across a greater number of ports on the Atlantic side of Africa than on the Indian Ocean, where so much geopolitical attention has been focused. China has been building ports from Mauritania southward around West Africa, through the Gulf of Guinea, and to Cameroon, Angola, and Gabon.

A base in West or Central Africa would be a bold play for a navy that is still getting its blue-water legs just 15 years after learning how to operate far from home, in the anti-piracy missions in the Gulf of Aden. Atlantic bases would put the PLAN in relative proximity to Europe, the Strait of Gibraltar, and key trans-Atlantic shipping lanes. And a shift to the Atlantic would be against the run of play. The United States has been obsessed with the Indo-Pacific, inking the AUKUS security partnership with the U.K. and Australia, deepening logistics ties with India, returning to the Philippines and the Solomon Islands, and cooperating on defense with Papua New Guinea. A PLAN base in the Atlantic would wrong-foot the naval calculus of Washington and Brussels, and send planners back to the drawing board.

We also find that China likes to put its ports in out-of-the-way places. One example is Beijing’s heavy investment in the port of Caio, an exclave province of Angola. Sometimes there are simple explanations: a lack of natural harbors of sufficient depth of water, or proximity to natural resources. But according to one shipping executive, Chinese entities in the past have seen their ports exposed to labor strife, public protests, and other disruptions, and so now prefer to distance themselves from these situations. Chinese entities likely prefer secure new locations where they can ensure majority and unfettered control or avoid a host country’s public opinion backlash. These would also be selling points in determining where to locate a naval facility.

More on our top eight most likely PLAN bases, highlighted on the map:

1. Hambantota, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

China has collectively sunk more than $2 billion dollars into Hambantota—the most of any port anywhere in the world, according to our data set. Beijing exercises direct control over the facility. Coupled with its strategic location, the popularity of China among elites and the population, and Sri Lanka’s alignment with China in U.N. General Assembly voting, Hambantota is our top candidate for a future base.

2. Bata, Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶

Sources in the U.S. Defense Department raised concerns about Chinese interest in a base at Bata, which were then picked up by mainstream media. The absence of any official statement by Beijing on a base is not necessarily conclusive—there were repeated denials from China about any such intentions for Djibouti, right up until the time an announcement was made that a base was coming. The commercial investment was used as the entree, but within months, construction had begun. Politically, Equatorial Guinea (as well as Cameroon and Togo) are all family dynasties or authoritarian regimes in power for years with succession plans in place or mooted. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index in 2022, all three rank toward the very bottom of global democracy rankings: Togo at 130th, Cameroon at 140th and Equatorial Guinea at 158th.

3. Gwadar, Pakistan 🇵🇰

The China-Pakistan relationship is both strategic and economic. Pakistan is the flagship country for China’s big Belt and Road infrastructure gambit, and it’s Beijing’s single largest customer for military exports. In Pakistan, Chinese warships are already a fixture: As it modernizes, Pakistan’s navy has become the largest foreign purchaser of Chinese arms, operating modern Chinese-designed surface warships and submarines. Gwadar itself is strategically situated in the far west of Pakistan, providing cover for the Strait of Hormuz. China is significantly more popular with the Pakistani public than the United States is. Though troubled, Pakistan is a democracy, and so China cannot necessarily permanently count on a leadership friendly to the notion of a naval base. Much could hang on the fate in Pakistan of the massive China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the belle of the Belt and Road ball, of which Gwadar is a big component. The stakes and scrutiny are high, and success or otherwise of the economic corridor could impact receptiveness to a PLAN base.

4. Kribi, Cameroon 🇨🇲

The Kribi port trails only Hambantota in terms of the size of Chinese investment. It is Bata’s most likely competitor, but the ports are only about 100 miles apart. China would likely only choose one. Cameroon’s U.N. General Assembly voting and overall geopolitical positioning aligns well with China. Elsewhere, Caio in Angola, Freetown in Sierra Leone, and Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire would all be basing possibilities, based on the size of Beijing’s investments there. Of Sierra Leone’s two main political parties, one (the All People’s Congress) is closely linked to China. At political rallies, its supporters have chanted phrases such as “We are Chinese” and “We are black Chinese.” Beijing has successfully insinuated itself into the political life of the country.

5. Ream, Cambodia 🇰🇭

While the official investment to date has been small, Ream, Cambodia, is very likely to be a PLAN facility in one form or another. While the United States and the West are popular with Cambodians, Prime Minister Hun Sen is a longtime ally of Beijing, and it is he who matters. Although he plans to step down in August to be replaced by his son, he’s expected to continue to call the shots. The elites of Cambodia have done well under Belt and road Initiative and are aligned closely with China. In 2020, Cambodia’s voting in the U.N. General Assembly mirrored that of China and coincided with the United States on just 19 of 100 contested votes that year, a rate only slightly higher than Iran, Cuba, and Syria. Hun Sen denies that Ream will be hosting the PLAN anytime soon, but the evidence indicates otherwise.

6. Luganville, Vanuatu 🇻🇺

Beijing has spent decades trying to crack the first island chain that hems it in. A PLAN base, perhaps not very large, makes sense somewhere in the South or Central Pacific. While our data shows only limited Chinese investments in port infrastructure in the region thus far, Vanuatu is one location where construction has been funded, at Port Luganville on the island of Espiritu Santo. An investment of $97 million is not small, as it puts Vanuatu in the top 30 investments globally, according to our data. And there is precedent: In World War II, the strategically located island was home to one of the largest U.S. Navy advanced bases and repair facilities in the Pacific. The Canal du Segond in front of Luganville was a massive, sheltered anchorage, home to fleets, floating dry docks, an air base, and supply bases.

7. Nacala, Mozambique 🇲🇿

While China’s port investments in Mozambique have not been on the same scale as in other locations, neither have they been insignificant. Mozambique also has not seen the backlash to Chinese loans and investments witnessed in other countries in East and Southern Africa, such as Kenya and Tanzania. China is popular with elites and the general population, and it sponsors a significant amount of the country’s media content. The question is: Where to site a base? Maputo is the largest port, but it is run by the government and Dubai Ports World. China has funded construction or expansion in both Beira and Nacala—both ports make our top 20 in terms of investment totals. Beira is likely too shallow for large warships, as it requires regular dredging. Nacala would make the most sense—it has seen sizable Chinese investment and is a deep-water port.

8. Nouakchott, Mauritania 🇲🇷

Mauritania is removed from the logjam of PLAN options in West and Central Africa; Nouakchott is more than 2,000 miles northwest of Bata, for example. The West African nation is also significantly closer to Europe and chokepoints such as the Strait of Gibraltar—roughly only two days’ steaming at 20 knots. At the 2020 U.N. Human Rights Council hearing on China’s new security law for Hong Kong, 53 countries supported China, including Antigua and Barbuda, Cambodia, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka—and Mauritania.

Wild Card: Russia 🇷🇺?

While China has been spending loads in the developing world, it could still try for a base in the nearly developed world, by co-locating fleet units at one or more Russian navy bases. There is a clear upside from the Chinese perspective: It doesn’t have to persuade the Russian leadership that the United States and Europe are a threat, and there’s little danger of any U.S. charm offensive to lure Russia away.

Russia has naval bases across its vast land mass, many of which are Cold War legacies. What could be attractive to PLAN naval planners would be a base in the North Pacific Ocean. Such a facility—say, the existing Russian base at Vilyuchinsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula—would be secure, distant from public scrutiny, make use of existing warship docking and repair facilities, and have the merit of placing the PLAN between Japan, a U.S. ally, and Alaska. In both 2021 and 2022, the PLAN and the Russian Navy conducted extensive joint exercises in the East China Sea and western Pacific, including circumnavigating the Japanese main islands. China could also share facilities with the Russian Navy in the Barents Sea, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia, or Kola Bay, a natural harbor off the Barents Sea, providing it access to the North Atlantic.

— Rory Fedorochko and Sarina Patterson contributed to this report — Alexander Wooley is a Journalist and Former Officer in the British Royal Navy.

— Sheng Zhang is a Research Analyst with AidData's Chinese Development Finance Program, where he tracks underreported financial flows and leads geospatial data collection. He is the co-author of a previous AidData report on China’s global development footprint, Banking on the Belt and Road.

[arinzeture]

These are African countries with their capital:

1. Algeria - Algiers 🇩🇿

2. Angola - Luanda 🇦🇴

3. Benin - Porto-Novo 🇧🇯

4. Botswana - Gaborone 🇧🇼

5. Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou 🇧🇫

6. Burundi - Bujumbura 🇧🇮

7. Cabo Verde - Praia 🇨🇻

8. Cameroon - Yaoundé 🇨🇲

9. Central African Republic - Bangui 🇨🇫

10. Chad - N'Djamena 🇹🇩

11. Comoros - Moroni 🇰🇲

12. Democratic Republic of the Congo - Kinshasa 🇨🇩

13. Djibouti - Djibouti 🇩🇯

14. Egypt - Cairo 🇪🇬

15. Equatorial Guinea - Malabo 🇬🇶

16. Eritrea - Asmara 🇪🇷

17. Eswatini - Mbabane 🇸🇿

18. Ethiopia - Addis Ababa 🇪🇹

19. Gabon - Libreville 🇬🇦

20. The Gambia - Banjul 🇬🇲

21. Ghana - Accra 🇬🇭

22. Guinea - Conakry 🇬🇳

23. Guinea-Bissau - Bissau 🇬🇼

24. Ivory Coast - Yamoussoukro 🇨🇮

25. Kenya - Nairobi 🇰🇪

26. Lesotho - Maseru 🇱🇸

27. Liberia - Monrovia 🇱🇷

28. Libya - Tripoli 🇱🇾

29. Madagascar - Antananarivo 🇲🇬

30. Malawi - Lilongwe 🇲🇼

31. Mali - Bamako 🇲🇱

32. Mauritania - Nouakchott 🇲🇷

33. Mauritius - Port Louis 🇲🇺

34. Morocco - Rabat 🇲🇦

35. Mozambique - Maputo 🇲🇿

36. Namibia - Windhoek 🇳🇦

37. Niger - Niamey 🇳🇪

38. Nigeria - Abuja 🇳🇬

39. Rwanda - Kigali 🇷🇼

40. Sao Tome and Principe - Sao Tome 🇸🇹

41. Senegal - Dakar 🇸🇳

42. Seychelles - Victoria 🇸🇨

43. Sierra Leone - Freetown 🇸🇱

44. Somalia - Mogadishu 🇸🇴

45. South Africa - Pretoria (administrative), Bloemfontein (judicial), Cape Town (legislative) 🇿🇦

46. South Sudan - Juba 🇸🇸

47. Sudan - Khartoum 🇸🇩

48. Tanzania - Dodoma 🇹🇿

49. Togo - Lome 🇹🇬

50. Tunisia - Tunis 🇹🇳

51. Uganda - Kampala 🇺🇬

52. Zambia - Lusaka 🇿🇲

53. Zimbabwe - Harare 🇿🇼

54. Congo Brazaville :Brazaville

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To commemorate AFRICA DAY on the 25 May 2024 , I am holding a Sims 4 African week event .

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The Trans-African Highway Network, Africa's most ambitious road project, is a pan-African initiative aiming to integrate nine major highways, covering a total of 56,683 kilometers.

The route will pass through South Africa 🇿🇦, Kenya 🇰🇪, Uganda 🇺🇬, Nigeria 🇳🇬, Cameroon 🇨🇲, Algeria 🇩🇿, Egypt 🇪🇬, Libya 🇱🇾, Senegal 🇸🇳, Chad 🇹🇩, Djibouti 🇩🇯, Ethiopia 🇪🇹, Sudan 🇸🇩, Botswana 🇧🇼, Angola 🇦🇴, Zambia 🇿🇲, Namibia 🇳🇦, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, Mozambique 🇲🇿, Tanzania 🇹🇿, the Central African Republic 🇨🇫, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Cameroon 🇨🇲 on the Gulf of Guinea, is a Central African country of varied terrain and wildlife. Its inland capital, Yaoundé, and its biggest city, the seaport Douala, are transit points to ecotourism sites as well as beach resorts like Kribi – near the Chutes de la Lobé waterfalls, which plunge directly into the sea – and Limbe, where the Limbe Wildlife Centre houses rescued primates. The Central African country has one of the highest literacy rates on the continent.

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National animal of Cameroon 🇨🇲

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Books I read in 2024

Here is my eclectic and very random-looking read list! The first two images are World Challenge books. I read 27 books and checked off 25 countries for the challenge, for a total of 80 countries read since 2022.

Other than that, I managed to read two Brontë sisters, four graphic novels, one memoir, and a few others I picked up. (Vā is a Pacific anthology even though it's in the graphic novel line) I did more picking up random stuff for the fun of it and as expected got some that were interesting and some meh.

Favorites (in no order):

The Cat I Never Named - fictionalized memoir of a teen surviving a siege during the Bosnian war West of the Jordan - interconnected stories of family members in Palestine, Jordan, and the US in the early 80s Here the Whole Time - A warm hug of a story about two gay teens falling in love while sharing a room and overcoming their insecurities Home is Not a Country - novel in verse about a Sudanese teen longing for a country and a life she doesn't have American Street - intense and realistic story set on the streets of Detroit All Things Seen and Unseen - a unique psychological thriller-ish book with a trans coupling and a disabled protagonist Navigating With You - super-cute sapphic romance about teens bonding over a manga series, also with a disabled protagonist

Countries completed:

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina - The Cat I Never Named, Amra Sabic-El-Rayess

🇧🇷 Brazil - Here the Whole Time, Vitor Martins

🇧🇬 Bulgaria - Wunderkind, Nikolai Grozni

🇨🇲 Cameroon - A Long Way From Douala, Max Lobe

🇹🇩 Chad - Told by Starlight in Chad, Joseph Brahim Seid

🇨🇬 Congo, Republic of - The Lights of Pointe-Noire, Alain Mabanckou

🇸🇻 El Salvador - The Volcano Daughters, Gina María Balibrera

🇫🇮 Finland - True, Riikka Pulkkinen

🇩🇪 Germany - Boy in a White Room, Karl Olsberg

🇬🇪 Georgia - Giorgland Fables, Tamuna Tsertsvadze

🇭🇹 Haiti - American Street, Ibi Zoboi

🌺 Hawai'i - Lei and the Fire Goddess, Malia Maunakea

🇭🇳 Honduras - Libertad, Bessie Flores Zaldívar

🇭🇰 Hong Kong - Stuck in Her Head, Kylie Wang & Liana Tang

🇮🇩 Indonesia - The Songbird and the Ramubutan Tree, Lucille Abendanon

🇯🇴 Jordan - West of the Jordan, Laila Halaby

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan - Jamila, Chingiz Aitmatov

🇱🇷 Liberia - She Would Be King, Wayétu Moore

🇲🇺 Mauritius - Eve Out of Her Ruins, Ananda Devi

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea - Tales from Faif, Baka Barakove Bina; Emily Sekepe Bina

🇷🇼 Rwanda - Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga

🇰🇷 South Korea - A Magical Girl Retires, Park Seolyeon

🇸🇩 Sudan - Home is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo

🇺🇬 Uganda - A Girl is a Body of Water, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

🇻🇪 Venezuela - The Sun and the Void, Gabriela Romero Lacruz

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Bulgarian flag (sorry I forgot initially)

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This is the very first Olympics I watched the opening ceremonies via television in its entirety.

Go France 🇫🇷, Go Cameroon 🇨🇲, Go Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo, Go Great Britain 🇬🇧, Go Ireland 🇮🇪, Go United States of America 🇺🇸! These are the countries who made who I am today or at least at birth.

Theme:

Legality, Equality, Fraternity, Sorority, Sportivity, Festivity, Obsecurity, Solidarity, Solemntity, Eternity.

Those minions were the funniest 🤣 😂 ever shown. Another funniest, but important moment was watching the soldier or military band dancing, marching, and singing 🎶 around Aya Nakamura.

How many teachers, professors, or any type of educators agree that World 🌎 Geography needs to be done over? Thanks to Google Maps and Apple Maps for helping me find over twenty (20) new countries. ROTFL 🤣! I discovered that Tavulu not on any map, and Virgin Islands split in two, British and United States.

First time hearing the Olympic Oath, Olympic theme song, and the meaning of the Olympic rings. The integration of Paralympics participation.

Watching Rafeal Nadal, Serena Williams, Carl Lewis, Tony Parker with the torch. Despite wind and rain 🌧️, that Olympic torch did not go out.

Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremonies set the bar for Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion for their own people. Los Angeles 2028, I did not get the volunteer opportunity in Paris, France 🇫🇷 , but USA 🇺🇸 bet not let me down.

Thanks France TV for showing the opening ceremonies without one commercial.

This is why I view life is like the Olympics, but my fight, sportsmanship, and competition is everyday, every year, every season, every decade, and every second of each day.

[arinzeture]

Top 11 Largest Ethnic Groups in Africa

1. Hausa (78 Million people)

67 million of them live in Nigeria 🇳🇬. However, they are also found in sizable numbers in Niger🇳🇪, Benin🇧🇯, Ivory Coast🇨🇮, Sudan 🇸🇩, Ghana 🇬🇭, Chad🇹🇩, Togo🇹🇬 and Burkina Faso 🇧🇫.

2. Yoruba (47 Million people)

Found in West Africa, especially in Nigeria 🇳🇬 (43.4 million) and Benin 🇧🇯 (1.4 million).

3. Igbo (45 Million people)

Found in Nigeria 🇳🇬 and Guinea 🇬🇼

4. Oromo (40 Million people)

Found in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Kenya 🇰🇪

5. Amazigh (+40 million people)

Found primary in Morocco 🇲🇦 and Algeria 🇩🇿, but are also found in Tunisia 🇹🇳, Libya 🇱🇾, Egypt 🇪🇬, Mali🇲🇱, Mauritania🇲🇷 and Niger. 🇳🇪

6. Fulani (40 million people)

7. Found in Nigeria 🇳🇬, Mali🇲🇱, Guinea 🇬🇼, Cameroon 🇨🇲, Senegal 🇸🇳 and Chad 🇹🇩.

8. Amhara (+30 Million people)

Found in Ethiopia 🇪🇹

9. Akan (20 million people)

Found in Ghana 🇬🇭 and the Ivory Coast🇨🇮

10. The Somali (20 million people)

Found in Somalia 🇸🇴, Djibouti 🇩🇯, Somaliland🇮🇹 Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Kenya 🇰🇪.

11. The Hutu (18.5 Million people)

Found in Rwanda 🇷🇼 and Burundi 🇧🇮

[stamp-it-to-me]

Do you have any stamps from Cameroon 🇨🇲

Asking for a friend (which is me :])

hi! i don't think i've posted any yet so i'll definitely look for some!!