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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 contacted China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request for comments sent by email.
The Financial Times cited former American officials who say the intelligence network is largely in the extensive 1,500 acres site (2. 3 square miles), which some call “the city of the Beijing army. ” Analysts have underlined the characteristics that they recommend that Chinese leaders are prepared for the possible nuclear war with the United States.
The FT research features satellite photographs from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 showing progress on the project, and the progression appears to begin last year about 20 miles southwest of Beijing.
Experts said the obvious deep holes in the photographs would likely involve arrangements for the structure of the bunkers hardened to space out the control of China’s military in the war, and a nuclear first 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, main member of foreign policy and national security at the Institute of Policy of the Asia Society, wrote in X: “Something I can say with almost certainty: deep relief suggests arrangements for a nuclear command C2. Total paranoia of the total paranoia of the PCCH In a first strike opposite to the continent, it would be a complex for all the leaders of PCCH civilians and the APL move for command and control a war or a nuclear crisis.
Mathieu Duchatel, a policy analyst in the group of experts of the Institut Montaigne based in Paris, wrote in X: “The scale is and the image that is being built in Xiangshan is surprising when you have been there. But what is telling us, That China is that it is China.
Dennis Wilder, former CIA deputy assistant director for East Asia and the Pacific, told the Financial Times: “If confirmed, this new advanced underground command bunker for the military leadership, including President Xi as the chairman of the Central Military Commission, signals Beijing’s intent to build not only a world-class conventional force but also an advanced nuclear warfighting capability,”
In recent years, China has expanded its nuclear capabilities and arsenal, and the Defense Ministry’s projects, the country will double its estimated 500 nuclear warheads by 2030.
A strong nuclear force is key to President Xi Jinping’s goal of achieving great power parity with Washington, experts say.
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].