Timalapse’s images show the rapid construction of a Chinese military complex that, according to US officials, is on the way to being at least 10 times larger in the Pentagon.
A new report of the Financial Times He cites the former and current US officials who say that the intelligence community is closely observing an extensive 1,500 acres site in China. The site, which some call “Beijing Military City”, has characteristics that suggest that Chinese leaders are preparing for a possible nuclear war with the United States.
A period of satellite image time of a new Chinese military command center under construction near Beijing, first reported by @Dimi.
The installation is on the way to being ten times larger than the Pentagon, according to US officials. pic.twitter.com/rrdhzvcflp
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The Financial Times analysis, based on satellite images of the European Space Agency Sentinel-2, shows the development of a project that began approximately 20 miles last year to the southwest of Beijing.
Experts suggest that deep holes visible in images can indicate preparations to build fortified bunkers designed to protect China’s military leadership in case of war potentially even in advance of a first nuclear strike.
Lyle Morris, the main member of foreign policy and national security at the Institute of Policy of the Asia Society, compared these developments with underground bunkers that President Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders who retired during the 1969 border conflict with the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons.
Sharing his analysis in X, Morris declared: “One thing I can say with almost certainty: the deep bunkering suggests preparations for a nuclear command C2. Given the deep paranoia of the PCCH on a first attack by the United States in the continent, this would serve as a command and the control center for all civil leadership and the PCH plan during a nuclear war or crisis.
Mathieu Duchatel, Policy Analyst of the Institut Montaigne, based in Paris, also intervened in X, commenting: “The scale is amazing, and seeing it built in Xiangshan is surprising if you have been there. But what this reveals: that China not only It seeks military parity with the United States, but superiority, and that its leadership remains vulnerable to a first screaming strike, it is something we already know. “
Dennis Wilder, former deputy deputy director of the CIA for East Oriental and Pacific, told the Financial Times: “If confirmed, this recently developed underground command bunker for China’s military leadership, including President XI in his role in his role From the president of the Central Military Commission, he emphasizes, they underline Beijing’s ambition to build not only a conventional world class military force, but also an advanced nuclear war capacity. “
In particular, the Pentagon serves as the headquarters of the Department of Defense and is in Arlington in the state of Virginia. It is one of the world’s largest office buildings and the Washington foreign policy center.
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