Equatorial Guinea | Why China’s reported military plans in Equatorial Guinea worry the US

Here is why the US has been concerned with China ‘s plans to build a military base in Equatorial Guinea

The US has countless military bases across the world, but Washington is particularly concerned about one that could pop up on the Atlantic Ocean .

Most of Equatorial Guinea’s oil reserves were discovered and have been extracted by American oil companies, making both the country’s ruling family, the Nguemas, and US firms rich while less than half of the country’s populationaccording to the Human Development Index. 

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China,according to recent American intelligence reports, is looking to build its first permanent military base in the West African country on the Atlantic Ocean coast. If the Chinese plan goes ahead, it will be China’s first permanent military base on the Atlantic. 

Despite the report placing China’s military ambitions in West Africa as a first, Ioannis Koskinas, a senior fellow at the international security program of New America, a US think-tank, sees a longer history. “It should be clear that China didn’t just wake up in 2021 and start investing in West Africa. Just in Equatorial Guinea alone, China started investing in the Bata Port Rehabilitation and Expansion Project, in 2006,” says Koskinas.  headtopics.com

According to US intelligence, Beijing will likely build the base in Bata, the largest city. China has already built a deep-water commercial port in Bata as Koskinas pointed out. Fight for the Atlantic?First, Equatorial Guinea is located in Africa’s Atlantic coast, a region where the US military has long had a firm hold and does not want to see an adversary like China to gain a strategic base there, compromising US domination. 

The base will allow the Asian giant to have “naval presence on the Atlantic,”according to Maj. Gen. Andrew Rohling, commander of the US Army Southern European Task Force—Africa. “My sense is that there’s more to it than just the military base. This is likely a concern of what China does with a military footprint in West Africa,” Koskinas tells

TRT World. “Having Chinese military vessels in the Atlantic represents a new phase of strategic competition. It may be that China simply says, ‘if the US gets to send its carrier battle groups to the Western Pacific, China can send its ships to the Atlantic’,” he adds. 

By building bases in both West and East Africa, China wants to challenge the US naval supremacy across the world’s oceans. A group of naval vessels from Russia and China sail across the Pacific Ocean. (Reuters)China’s first overseas military base was also in Africa’s Djibouti, located on the eastern part of the continent, straddling both the Indian Ocean and the strategic Suez Channel. Djibouti is a country with some similarities to Equatorial Guinea in terms of its small population and location.  headtopics.com

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As a result, China’s two choices for military bases in Africa appear to signal that the Asian giant wants military access to both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, aiming to increase political competition with the US. Beijing and Washington have already

experienced increasing tensions across the Pacificon which both countries have extensive coasts. “China has global ambitions. The fact that some are just noticing is quite frankly a bit disturbing,” Koskinas says. A senior Biden administration has also described the Chinese intention to build a military base in the Atlantic coast as something that “would raise national-security concerns” of the US. 

In October, due to increasing US concerns regarding the Chinese military base, Washington also sent the Biden administration’s deputy national security adviser to Equatorial Guinea to block Chinese deployment. But at the same time, Washington describes any refusal to host American troops in any given country — which might see the US military presence as threatening their own national security — as anti-Americanism. 

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