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The Dragon in Djibouti: the Shifting Tides of China’s Strategy

A small East African nation of 876,000 people, of negligible resource wealth, and little to no political drama, Djibouti is rare to grab headlines. On November 26th 2015, however, when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) announced that its first oversees military installation would be in Djibouti, the country was suddenly launched to the forefront of international politics. The negotiations between China and Djibouti have been ongoing since February 2014, when the ...

01.12.2015

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China’s Grand Military Reform: What Will It Be Like?

... the one hand, and in coordination with the Chinese civilian agencies, on the other. The PRC Defence Minister is not so much responsible for the military as the chief military diplomat. The army is controlled by the Central Military Commission of the PRC, to which the four “General Departments” report. Now China has its first combat-capable unit of four or five nuclear missile-carrying submarines (Project 094) with quite modern Julang-2 intercontinental ballistic missiles, has deployed dozens of new mobile solid-fuel ICBMs, is building a national missile ...

11.09.2015

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U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)