Posted on 09/07/2021 7:04:58 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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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It was the plan all along.
I see Hunter’s business deals are going swimmingly.
Maybe the Chinese are waiting a few weeks to see if Lindsey Graham and friends don’t find a way to get Americans BACK onto that air base again. Lindsey has made up his mind!
Thanks Obama.
Since the reported drone shot last week that was “over horizon”, I suspect that China had already and quickly deployed SAMs into the zones of Kandahar and Kabul.
They can have it
Atta girl, Miller. Was that in your plan too?
Let China be next in line to entire the graveyard of empires.
The Chicoms and Taliban deserve each other.
Milley. Damn autocorrect. Too bad their decisions didn’t have autocorrect; we’d still have the base.
Most useful military asset in Afghanistan.
Hey Milley ya very STOOPID, ya gave it away.
Russia built it we gave it away.
Hey Milley ya stoopid, tell us you didn’t KNOW dementia Joe had lost his mind ya a-hole?
Not surprised at all. Worlds largest lithium deposits located there. They’re on the move and the former USA is in retreat mode.
Of course they are. Biden worked this out with them. all along.
That’s probably what Boris Johnson in London is saying to Joe Biden in Delaware.
We need to bunker bust all of that infrastructure.
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