CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The People’s Liberation Army Support Base in Djibouti is a military base operated by China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), located in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa. It is the PLAN’s first overseas military base and was built at a cost of US$590 million.

Detailed explanation-2: -China has only one overseas military base-in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa-but has gained leverage by loaning money for infrastructure projects in a number of countries where it might want to establish its forces.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chinese military history underwent a dramatic transformation in the 20th century, with the People’s Liberation Army beginning in 1927 with the start of the Chinese Civil War, and developing from a peasant guerrilla force into what remains the largest armed force in the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -China still has just one military base abroad, a naval facility opened in 2017 in Djibouti. But it is accelerating and broadening its quest for more. American and allied officials believe it has approached at least five countries since 2018 and considered a dozen others as potential hosts (see map).

Detailed explanation-5: -The first country to build a new military base in the Asia-Pacific after the Cold War was China. It did so at Yalong Bay on Hainan Island at the northern edge of the South China Sea during the late 2000s.