{
    "byline": "By Olli Pekka Suorsa",
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    "excerpt": "The opening of the Laos-China Joint Support and Training Center and the Friendship Aviation Academy in Ban Keun, Laos on September 29 has sparked an intense media storm. China hawks claim that the innocuous airfield represents Beijing\u2019s third overseas military base, following the Djibouti facility in East Africa and the Ream Naval Support facility in Cambodia, and the first Chinese air base in Southeast Asia.",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 9902,
    "publishedTime": null,
    "siteName": null,
    "title": "Debunking Alarmist Narratives on the \u2018China Air Base\u2019 in Laos"
}