{"id":157715,"date":"2026-09-21T09:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157715"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:58:37","slug":"djibouti-base-upgrade-may-offer-pla-window-on-foreign-military-middle-east-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157715","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti base upgrade may offer PLA window on foreign military Middle East operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has upgraded its military base in Djibouti with communications equipment a US think tank says is \u201clikely enhancing\u201d the country\u2019s ability to collect signals intelligence \u2013 potentially giving the PLA a window on foreign military operations in Djibouti and the wider Middle East.<br \/>\nThe Chinese facility sits within 16km (10 miles) of US, French, Italian and Japanese military bases, according to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in an unusually concentrated environment in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3368246\/djibouti-base-upgrade-may-offer-pla-window-foreign-military-middle-east-operations?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has upgraded its military base in Djibouti with communications equipment a US think tank says is \u201clikely enhancing\u201d the country\u2019s ability to collect&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157715"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}