00Djibouti2-master675 Published February 27, 2017 at 675 × 455 in U.S. Wary of Its New Neighbor in Djibouti: A Chinese Naval Base ← Previous Chinese workers in 2015 at the construction site of a railway linking Djibouti with Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. China has financed this and other critical infrastructure projects in Djibouti. Credit Carl De Souza/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images