China has no military bases in Central Asia countries. According to the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China Van Wenbin, commenting on the publications about the construction of the bases in Tajikistan. His words leads TASS.
We are talking about reports of the Reuters Agency, according to which Beijing is going to finance the construction of military bases at the borders of Tajikistan with Afghanistan. “I can confidently tell you that China does not have any military base in Central Asia,” Van Wenbin said.
At the same time, he did not respond to the accusations of the construction of the bases, which foreign editions write about and write. Neither Reuters nor other Western media claimed that they are already in Central Asia.
The representative of the Tajikistan Parliament told Reuters that Dushanbe and Beijing reached an agreement on the construction of China base in the mountains of Pamir (in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, on the border with Afghanistan). TASS notes that, according to other media, the construction of the base is estimated at 9.4 million dollars. Upon completion of construction, the base of it will be transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan.