China is considering deploying military personnel and economic development officials to Bagram airfield, perhaps the single-most prominent symbol of the 20-year U.S. military presence in Afghanista
The Chinese military is currently conducting a feasibility study about the effect of sending workers, soldiers and other staff related to its foreign economic investment program known as the Belt and Road Initiative in the coming years to Bagram, according to a source briefed on the study by Chinese military officials, who spoke to U.S. News on the condition of anonymity.
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday issued a carefully crafted denial of plans for an imminent takeover of the military airfield roughly an hour from Kabul, first established by the Soviets during their own occupation in Afghanistan and which at the height of the U.S. military presence there was its busiest in the world.
"What I can tell everyone is that that is a piece of purely false information," Wang Wenbin told reporters Tuesday morning. China has repeatedly denied many of its other military deployments beyond its borders.
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Well at least the state pension funds of California are helping .....by investing in black listed Chinese military entities...thanks Newsome.
We should just drop four MOABs on the exiisting airport that us taxpayers paid for and ask the "Chinks" to piick up the pieces!!!
China doesn't have to weigh anything, it was a GIFT from Xiden!
Maybe China will get stuck with the Taliban. It would serve them right.
Wouldn't that be sweet