Ships carrying Chinese military personnel for Beijing's first overseas military base, in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, have left China to begin setting up the facility as China's rapidly modernising military hones its global reach. "These promises will not change because of the construction of the overseas logistics base," it said. The state-run Global Times said in an editorial on Wednesday there could be no mistake that this was in fact a military base. "Certainly this is the People's Liberation Army's first overseas base and we will base troops there. However, China's military development was about protecting its own security, it said.

Source: dna July 12, 2017 03:22 UTC