China is seeking to build a more strong overseas logistics and basing infrastructure in order to allow the PLA to project and sustain military power over greater distances. the PRC is looking for additional military facilities to support naval, air, ground, cyber, and space power projection. Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories, and China has only one base in Djibouti including the PLA’s presence in other countries .Therefore it most likely considered a number of countries for (PLA) facilities, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Seychelles. according to a US Defense Department report A global PLA military logistics network and PLA military facilities could both interfere with US military operations and support offensive operations against the US as the PRC’s global military objectives evolve, Some of the PRC’s OBOR projects may result in potential military advantages, such as PLA access to selected foreign ports to pre-position the necessary logistics support to sustain naval deployments in waters as far away as the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Atlantic Ocean to protect its growing interests. The PRC is attempting to develop access in multiple African countries along the continent’s Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Mediterranean coasts in order to provide a variety of options.
