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the CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor.

Eurasian Times headline, China Eyes Military Base in U.S. Front Yard.

Experts call PLA's Atlantic Outpost

the greatest security risk of all.

Gordon Chang, at Gordon Chiang is with me, and we go to our man on Naval Intelligence, Jim Finel.

He is retired Captain U.S. Navy, most importantly, co-author of the new Embracing Communist China, America's greatest strategic

failure. He's also a fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy comes to us from

sunny Switzerland.

Jim, the Atlantic, the front yard of the US and Europe,

and China projecting power into it would be ambition,

maybe a bridge too far given their logistics, but right now this article

mentions Gabon.

You tell me that other ports on the west of Africa along the Atlantic have been

part of calls for the Chinese. What other cities? What other countries and

what is the ambition? Good evening to you. Good evening, John and Gordon.

This report is important because it just

demonstrates the commitment that China is displayed

to have a presence in the Atlantic Ocean for a long time.

So they've sent research, oceanographic research vessels into the South Atlantic almost two

decades ago. They've been slowly sending those

kind of vessels in there to do research. But in this latest report, it was

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