美国警惕在吉布提的新邻居：中国军事基地

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杰安迪 and Jane Perlez, 美国警惕在吉布提的新邻居：中国军事基地. 纽约时报中文网, Feb 27, 2017
http://cn.nytimes.com/world/2017 ... chinese-naval-base/

, which is translated from

Andrew Jacobs and Jane Perlez, US Wary of a Chinese Base Rising as Its Neighbor in Africa. New York Times, Feb 26, 2017.

My comment:
(a) I did not read the report (in print). Instead, I viewed the map (which does not appear in the Chinese translation: cn.nytimes.com, though the English report in www.nytimes.com does carry it, the map).  US base (Camp Lemonnier) is situated south of the capital, whereas the "Chinese naval base  under construction" is to the west of the capital. The air distance between the two bases, at the closest, is about 5 or 6 miles.

(b)
(i) Camp Lemonnier  (was a military base used by French Foreign Legion and was named after French General Emile-René Lemonnier [1893 – Mar 10,  1945; After Sept 11, 2001 US set up a base here for anti-terrorism; It is the only permanent US military base in Africa)  en.wikipedia.org
(ii) Émile Lemonnier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Lemonnier
(Japanese beheaded him at Lang Son 諒山, capital city of Lang Son province -- 越南语：Tỉnh Lạng Sơn 省諒山 [諒山 is not a mountain, but a place name, of the city and of province] )

(c) Republic of Djibouti (Independence from France 1977; total area  23,200 km2); named after its capital, City of Djiboouti)  en.wikipedia.org

Compare
Taiwan's total area (including waters WITHIN it) is 36,193 km2.