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Timelapse’s images show China’s immediate structure of an army complex that US officials, according to US officials, are at least 10 times the length of the Pentagon.
Newsweek has reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry with an emailed request for comment.
The Financial Times summoned previous and existing US officials saying that the intelligence network is largely in the extensive site of 1,500 acres (2. 3 square squares), which some are calling “the city of the Beijing army. ” Analysts have pointed out that characteristics are the characteristics that China leaders are preparing for a possible nuclear war with the United States.
The FT research features satellite photographs from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 featured in the project In the project, the progression begins last year about 20 miles southwest of Beijing.
Experts said the deep holes apparent in the images may indicate preparations for the construction of hardened bunkers to house China’s military leadership in the event of a war—and possibly a nuclear first strike.
Lyle Morris, Analyst of the Asia Society Institute, based in New York, attracted parallels with the president of the deep underground bunkers Mao Zedong and other high -level Chinese leaders fled the border clash of 1969 with the Soviet Union of Nuclear Weapons.
Lyle Morris, senior member of foreign policy and national security at the Institute of Policy of the Asia Society, wrote in X: “One thing I can say with almost certainty: deep relief suggests arrangements for a nuclear command C2. A first strike against The continent would be a complex for all PCCH and PL civil leaders to move for command and control a nuclear war or crisis.
Mathieu Duchatel, a policy analyst at the Paris-based Institut Montaigne think tank, wrote in X: “The scale is and the picture that’s being built in Xiangshan is striking when you’ve been there. But what it is telling us, that China is that it is China. Not only to make parity of the military with the United States, but that superiority, and that China’s leadership is vulnerable to a first disarmament strike, is something we already know. “
Dennis Wilder, former Deputy Director of the CIA for East Asia and the Pacific, told the Financial Times: “If confirmed, this new underground command bunker for the leadership of the army, adding President XI as president of the Military Commission as president of the Military Military Commission Central, points out Beijing’s goal to build only a traditional world class force, but also a complex nuclear war capacity. “
In recent years, China has been expanding its nuclear functions and arsenal, and the Defense Ministry’s plans for the country to double its estimated 500 nuclear warheads by 2030.
The strong nuclear force is the key to the objective of President Xi Jinping to succeed in a wonderful force parity with Washington, according to experts.
Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan. You can get in touch with Micah by emailing [email protected].
Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan. You can get in touch with Micah by emailing [email protected].