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Foreign and overseas bases of France

France’s loss is not China’s gain in the Indo-Pacific

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Chinese media have played up US-EU discord over AUKUS nuclear sub deal but the West vs China battle lines are still firmly in place by Bertil Lintner September 23, 2021 Source: https://asiatimes.com/2021/09/frances-loss-is-not-chinas-gain-in-indo-pacific/ German translation: Frankreichs Verlust ist kein Gewinn für China im indo-pazifischen Raum Source: https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=76738 Excerpts: […] France’s Exclusive Economic Zone in the Indian Ocean encompasses altogether 2,650,013 square kilometers, which is possible because of all the scattered islands which are under French control. Réunion with 860,000 inhabitants is a department d’outre mer, or an overseas department of France, and so is the smaller island of Mayotte northwest of … Continue reading →

TCH | Fort-Lamy Air Base, N’Djamena (Chad)

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Wikipedia EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27Djamena_International_Airport
FR: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_a%C3%A9rienne_172_Fort-Lamy
DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flughafen_N%E2%80%99Djamena

DJI | Djibouti / Dschibuti (Σ)

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Wikipedia EN: (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti%E2%80%93Ambouli_International_Airport#Military_use –

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti_Armed_Forces – 

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti#Foreign_military_presence

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