China builds huge new wartime military command centre in Beijing

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The Chinese military is creating a huge complex in West Beijing that the US intelligence believes that the larger wartime commander than the Pentagon will serve as command centers, according to current and American former officials.

Satellite images obtained by the Financial Times showed by US detectives showed that military experts in the southwest of Beijing showed that the larger, rigid bunkers showed about 1,500 acres of construction site to protect Chinese military Leaders during any conflict – including potential nuclear war.

Several current and former US officials say the intelligence community is closely monitoring the site, which will be the world’s largest military command center – and at least 10 times higher in the size of the Pentagon.

Based on an evaluation of satellite images obtained by FT, large construction began in the middle of 2024. Three people familiar with the situation say some detective analysts have called the project “Beijing Military City”.

The construction came with the development of new weapons and projects in the People’s Liberation Army in 2027. US Detective President says Xi Jinping At that moment, the PLA has also directed to create the ability to attack Taiwan.

The PLA His nuclear weapons are also expanding rapidly and work to better integrate its various branches. Military experts believe that the lack of PLA consolidation compared to the US armed forces is one of its largest weaknesses.

“If confirmed, this new advanced underground command for the military leadership as the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Bunker, not only a world -class conventional force in Beijing, but also the intention of building the power of an advanced nuclear war,” said Dennis Wilder, CIA. Former chief of analysis of China.

The National Intelligence Director, which monitors the US intelligence community, has not commented on the project. Washington’s Chinese embassy says it is “unaware of the details” but emphasized that China is “committed to peaceful development and a defense policy that is protective of nature”.

Former image analyst Renny Babyarz, an analysis of the region, analyzed the image of the region, says at least five cranes are working in five square kilometers of underground infrastructure.

“Photography analysis advises the construction of several potential underground facilities attached through possible underground passages, although additional information and information is required to fully evaluate this construction,” a geological analysis, lazy analysis, now the vice-president of the analysis and operation of the operation, said, said. Service Group.

The Western Beijing site was busy with the construction program earlier this month, against the lack of development of most of China’s big real estate projects, which tied up by the property sector crisis. No showroom was usually associated with any commercial real estate project. For abnormally commercial projects, there is no official mention of the construction site on the Internet in Chinese.

There was no visible military presence on the site, but there was a warning against flying drones or photos. A gate guard suddenly said that entry was forbidden and the project was refused to talk about. A supervisor who left the construction site refused to comment on the project.

Access behind the project has been blocked by a checkpoint. A watchman said that people could not access the popular hiking and tourist zones near the site, which local shopkeepers described as a “military zone”.

A former senior US intelligence officer said that the current headquarters of Central Beijing was fairly new, though it was not designed as a safe war command center.

Former officials said, “The Chinese main protected command center was built on the northeast of the northeast of the new facility and decades ago at the height of the Cold War,” the former official said. “The size of the new advantage, the scale and partially buried features implies that it will replace the Western Hill Complex as the initial wartime command facility.

The former intelligence officer added, “Chinese leaders can judge the new advantage that will enable our ‘Bunker Baster’ war against the war and even greater protection against nuclear weapons,” the former intelligence officer has added. “It may also include more advanced and secure communications and there may be places to extend PLA capabilities and missions.”

A Chinese researcher, familiar with images, says that the site has all the “sensitive military facilities”, including heavy concrete and deep underground tunneling.

“About 10 times larger than the Pentagon, it is suitable for Xi Jinping’s ambition to overcome the United States,” the researcher says. “This fort is simply a purpose that works as a domsod bunker for China’s growing sophisticated and capable military.”

The site is constructed within the multidimensional renewal of the western outpost of Beijing. However, it is online about why the houses of the Kinglongu area are being destroyed in China.

A user in a post by the Chinese search engine equivalent to Courora said: “Are they going to create a Chinese Pentagon in Kinglongu?”

Two people close to the Taiwan Defense Ministry also said that the PLA seemed to be building a new command center, although some experts questioned whether the region was suitable for underground bunkers.

“Land area is much larger than a general military camp and military school, so it can only be assumed that it is a site for a large training base,” Council researcher Hu Yen-Chi said, “strategic and Wargating Studies Taipay Taipaye. -Tank.