China is an economic powerhouse and a leading country, China's overseas interests have spread all over the world, and China's maritime transportation lines are also among the busiest in the world. In order to protect China's overseas interests and the security of its sea transportation routes, China needs to have sufficient military forces to escort and deter. However, China currently has only one military base overseas, Djibouti in East Africa, which is clearly not enough. China's need for overseas military bases is urgent, but the construction of China's overseas military bases also faces many difficulties and challenges.
First of all, China's construction of overseas military bases has been strongly opposed and interfered with by the United States. The United States is a global military hegemon, and the United States has hundreds of military bases around the world, covering all strategic points and sea chokepoints. The United States believes that China is its biggest strategic competitor, and the United States does not want to see China expand its military influence overseas, and the United States will use its military superiority and diplomatic influence in the world to obstruct and sabotage the construction of China's overseas military bases. For example, the US "Bloomberg" recently reported that China plans to establish a second overseas military base in the Middle Eastern country of Oman, which has aroused great concern and vigilance in the United States. The United States said that this intelligence has been reported to Biden and that the United States will closely monitor China's movements in Oman.
Second, China's construction of overseas military bases has also been questioned and distrusted by the international community. China has always adhered to the path of peaceful development, China has no ambition to dominate the world, and the purpose of China's overseas military bases is to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests, to fulfill its international responsibilities and obligations, and to maintain regional and world peace and stability. However, some countries and ** have a skeptical and hostile attitude towards China's motives and objectives, believing that China's construction of overseas military bases is for expansion and threat, and is aimed at challenging and undermining the existing international order and rules. These countries and ** will smear and slander China's construction of overseas military bases, exert pressure and influence on China's partners in overseas military bases, and monitor and interfere with China's activities in overseas military bases.
Finally, the construction of China's overseas military bases also faces its own confusion and challenges. China is a pacifist country, China's national defense policy is defensive, and China's military power is for self-defense and security, not for aggression and attack. Whether China's construction of overseas military bases will change China's image of peace and national defense concept, whether it will trigger China's military expansion and adventure, whether it will lead to an increase in China's military expenditures and burdens, and whether it will affect China's internal development and stability are all questions that China needs to seriously consider and answer.
To sum up, China's needs and predicaments in overseas military bases is a complex and sensitive topic, China needs to find a balance and breakthrough between upholding its own interests and respecting international rules, China needs to find a way of cooperation and win-win between maintaining its own security and promoting world peace, and China needs to explore a path of innovation and adaptation between maintaining peaceful development and responding to external challenges. China's overseas military bases are not built to confront the United States or other countries, but to share with the world, not to pursue hegemony, but to uphold justice, not to create conflicts, but to promote harmony.