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

... is to be a “logistics facility” designed for refueling and resupplying Chinese Navy ships, helping China participate in United Nations peacekeeping operations, providing humanitarian assistance, and carrying out escort missions around the Horn of Africa and in pirate-ridden waters of the Gulf of Aden. The outpost is also reportedly designed to host some 10,000 Chinese troops , which, for all intents and purposes, makes it a military base in all but name. In fact, in Djibouti, which is becoming increasingly crowded, it is not the only ...