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Overhead satellite view of an airport apron with eight small jets parked in two columns and a line of dark vehicles in front of a terminal building.

Satellite images show eight K-8 jets at China's new Ban Keun base in Laos

Commercial imagery taken a day after Beijing opened the China-Laos training centre shows light attack jets and support vehicles on the apron while the runway is still being built, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

TaiwanDefence · 2h ago · 3 min read