Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. We will see in due time if thats true.According to the Guanqi team, they believe post Macron's visit China and France is now actively discussing PLAN basing in one of their pacific overseas territories. They also said we should expect France to do something to appease the US on the surface and we should ignore it because they've already flew it by China.
Sure enough shortly after Macron went back a French frigate transited Taiwan Strait, evidentially France had China's permission as the ship kept to China's side of the strait and both countries kept the incident very low profile.
If you could only pick one, where in the above map's read circles would you put the PLAN base?
As for a hypothetical ideal base for China, I think somewhere here:
