Newsweek's global military site map shows where the two countries maintain a forward presence.
The United States is a global superpower sustained by hundreds of military sites around the world. By the end of this decade, China could have a burgeoning network of its own.American warfighting doctrine begins in peacetime with an enduring or rotational presence at strategic locations outside the continental United States—airfields, seaports and camps, as well as arms depots, administrative offices and housing complexes—often in allied, friendly or neutral territory.
All four neighbors were participants of the Belt and Road Initiative, President Xi Jinping's ambitious plan to enlarge his country's economic footprint across land links and sea lines. Economic security and domestic regime legitimacy were the primary drivers behind the inevitability of China's military reaching further from its shores, the Rand authors said.
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