When John Bolton, US national security adviser, unfurled President Donald Trump’s “New Africa Strategy” in Washington this month, he cited an incident from 2018 in which the Chinese military allegedly shone blinding lasers into the eyes of two US airmen. The crew had been flying a mission over the strategic African state of Djibouti where Chinese and US soldiers have been peering at each other warily since Beijing opened its first overseas military base in the Red Sea port last year.
美國國家安全顧問約翰•波頓(John Bolton)去年12月在華盛頓公佈了美國總統唐納•川普(Donald Trump)的「新非洲戰略」,他在講話中提到2018年的一件事情:中國軍方據稱向兩名美國飛行員的眼睛照射會致盲的鐳射。這兩名飛行員當時在非洲的戰略要地吉布地(Djibouti)上空執行飛行任務。自2017年中國在這個紅海港口建立首個海外軍事基地以來,此地的中美士兵一直在警惕地盯著對方。