China and Japan take military rivalry to Djibouti: Japan plans to open its first overseas military base since the second world war next year in the small but strategic African country of Djibouti, but China is not best pleased, reports Peter Feuilherade.

New African › Nbr. 2010, January 2010

Author: Feuilherade, Peter

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China and Japan take military rivalry to Djibouti: Japan plans to open its first overseas military base since the second world war next year in the small but strategic African country of Djibouti, but China is not best pleased, reports Peter Feuilherade.

DJIBOUTI, A MEMBER OF THE Arab League, and Somalia's northern neighbour at the southern end of the Gulf of Aden, is fast becoming a preferred place for foreign military bases. Already the US has one there; and the former colonia...

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