🇨🇳🇱🇦 Reuters: Satellite images show eight K-8 light attack aircraft and more than two dozen support vehicles at a new joint Sino-Laos training facility in Ban Kiun, outside Vientiane, in what analysts say could mark Beijing's first overseas military base in Southeast Asia.

🇨🇳🇱🇦 Reuters: Satellite images show eight K-8 light attack aircraft and more than two dozen support vehicles at a new joint Sino-Laos training facility in Ban Kiun, outside Vientiane, in what analysts say could mark Beijing's first overseas military base in Southeast Asia.

The site, a former CIA Cold War-era covert airfield known as Lima Site 44 that was used during the Vietnam War, is being closely monitored for signs of air defenses, fuel storage and surveillance facilities that could indicate wider military functions beyond training.