Google Gemini 2.5 Pro just estimated 200 military bases close to China (I used “close” in my prompt, not very precise, so that number is likely including bases in the general area.)
Gemini estimated 750 to 800 total military bases.
Gemini estimated 750 to 800 total military bases.
When you say China that is incredibly disingenuous. If we said Asia yeah sure and that is effectively Japan and Korea.
Now let’s think about it more in terms of major bases/complexes. We are looking at maybe 25 in and around Japan and 10 for Korea. Still not a small number but I think a very different mental picture than 900 bases mostly around China. Also worth nothing that’s probably around 80k people deployed in those two countries.
I think there is a lot of bias everywhere, and I thought that this sort of averages some of the noise away.
I think grandparent comments about what constitutes a military base vs. a facility are interesting. I was a defense contractor from 1974 to 1998, and it seemed like all the US bases I visited were very large, but some of the NATO bases I visited were much smaller. Sorry to be anecdotal here, just explaining my own experiences.