China opens training center with Laos, marking third overseas military base

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China opens training center with Laos, marking third overseas military base

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China has opened a joint military training center with Laos, reported as its third overseas military base. Satellite imagery indicates that part of the facility occupies a site associated with a former U.S. airstrip used during the Vietnam War.

Satellite imagery shows the new facility is built in part on a purported old US airstrip used during the Vietnam War.

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