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The Israeli military says it works to prevent settler attacks, and Palestinians must coordinate with Israeli authorities in advance to visit their lands if they’re near settlements or outposts.

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.