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Vietnam’s outposts allow it to project power in the Spratlys and are a response to China’s own campaign to expand and fortify a series of rocks and atolls in the same island chain.

It now has its headquarters in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood and an outpost in Puerto Rico.

If those slip, China’s Tiangong could be the only crewed outpost in orbit for a while.

The outpost visited by The Wall Street Journal sits on high ground overlooking the now flattened neighborhood of Shujaiya.

Then why is the government still open to Beijing’s proposal to build a giant new embassy in London that would be China’s largest diplomatic outpost in Europe?