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Timelapse images show China’s rapid construction of a military complex that U.S. officials say is on track to be at least 10 times the size of the Pentagon.
Newsweek communicated with China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request for comments by email.
The Financial Times quoted former and existing U. S. officials as saying the intelligence network is largely on the sprawling 1,500-acre (2. 3-square-mile) site, which some call “Beijing’s army city. “Analysts have underscored the characteristics that recommend that Chinese leaders be prepared for possible nuclear war with the United States.
The FT research presents satellite photographs of the European Space Agency Sentinel-2 that appears in the project in the project, the progression starts last year to about 20 miles to the southwest of Beijing.
The experts said that the obvious deep holes in the photographs would possibly imply arrangements for the structure of the hardened bunkers to space the leadership of the China Army in the occasion of the war, and with all likelihood of a first nuclear strike.
Lyle Morris, an analyst at the New York-based Asia Society Policy Institute, drew parallels with the deep underground bunkers Chairman Mao Zedong and other top Chinese leaders fled to during the 1969 border conflict with the nuclear-armed Soviet Union.
Lyle Morris, a senior fellow for foreign policy and national security at the Asia Society Policy Institute, wrote in X: “One thing I can say with almost certainty: Deep relief suggests arrangements for a C2 nuclear command. Total paranoia of the CCP in a first strike opposed to the continent, it would be a complex for all the civilian leaders of the CCP and the PLA to move for command and control a war or a nuclear crisis.
Mathieu Duchatel, a political analyst of the Reflection Group of the Montaigne Institute, founded in Paris, wrote in X: “The scale is and the symbol under Xiangshan is surprising when you were there. But this tells him that China does. Not only the Parity of the Force of the Army with the United States, but that the superiority, and that China’s leadership is vulnerable to a first disassembly strike, is something we already know.
Dennis Wilder, the CIA’s former deputy deputy director for East Asia and the Pacific, told the Financial Times: “If confirmed, this new underground command bunker for the leadership of the military, adding President Xi as chairman of the Central Military Commission, signals Beijing’s goal to build only a traditional world-class force, but also a complex nuclear war capability. “
Beyond the few years have noticed that China expands its nuclear and arsenal functions, and the Ministry of Defense plans the country to double its 500 nuclear eyes estimated until 2030.
A nuclear force is key to the purpose of President Xi Jinping to achieve a giant force parity with Washington, according to Mavens.
Micah McCartney is a Newsweek journalist in Taipei, Taiwan. It covers US-Chinese relations, security disorders of East Asia and Southeast Asia, and the links between the characteristics between China and Taiwan. You can touch Micah by sending an email to Mr. McCartney@newsweek. com.
Micah McCartney is a Newsweek journalist in Taipei, Taiwan. It covers US-Chinese relations, security disorders of East Asia and Southeast Asia, and the links between the characteristics between China and Taiwan. You can touch Micah by sending an email to Mr. McCartney@newsweek. com.