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- The first country to build a new military base in the Asia-Pacific after the Cold War was China. It did so at Yalong Bay on Hainan Island at the northern edge of the South China Sea during the late 2000s. The ostensible reason for building the base was to better assert China’s sovereignty claims over the waters.
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Nov 27, 2023 · Satellite imagery analyzed by maritime security researcher H.I. Sutton revealed that the facilities nearest to Sanya, a resort town on the island province of Hainan in southern China, would...
Sep 21, 2022 · Imagery of the Yulin naval base on the southern tip of China’s Hainan Island was taken July 31. (Google; Maxar Technologies) MELBOURNE, Australia — China is expanding its submarine base on...
Feb 16, 2023 · As recent as September 2022, satellite images showed China was expanding its submarine base on Hainan, adding two new piers to the four existing piers at the Yulin Naval Base.
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Mar 13, 2023 · Ground, naval, and air force units of the People's Liberation Army are based along China's southern coast, including on Hainan Island, which is home to major PLA bases and hosts a PLA...
Just a few pixels on a commercial-grade Earth-observation satellite photograph, it portrays a piece of Hainan Island – a strategically significant 35,400sq km land mass off the south coast of China. It’s the location of a major naval base – much of it concealed in a bunker built deep under a mountain peninsula.
Apr 14, 2022 · The first country to build a new military base in the Asia-Pacific after the Cold War was China. It did so at Yalong Bay on Hainan Island at the northern edge of the South China Sea during the late 2000s.
Yulin Naval Base (Chinese: 楡林海军基地) is the traditional base of the People's Liberation Army Navy, located in the eastern suburb of Sanya, Hainan Province, China, next to Yulin Port. Further east on Yalong Bay is the new Longpo Naval Base , formerly called "Yulin-East", for the nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers .
