US military bases: the lingering shadow over the world
China DailyResidents take part in a rally outside a US air base in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, on May 14, 2022. According to statistics by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a US-based think tank, the US has 750 overseas military bases in 80 countries, which host a large number of US troops all year round, costing more than $55 billion a year. Not long ago, the New York Times published an article titled "A Brutal Sex Trade for American Soldiers" that exposed the suffering of Korean women at US military bases in Korea: in the 1980s, with the connivance and even assistance of the South Korean government, about 19,000 South Korean women were sexually exploited by the US troops in its host country and many of the victims still live with memories of fear and humiliation. Over the decades, the US has continued to wage military strikes and even wars of aggression from its overseas military bases against other sovereign countries with different political views. From Latin America to the Middle East, from East Asia to Eastern Europe, with the help of its global military bases, the US was behind almost every major military conflict since the Second World War.
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