Several US officials, former or current, have told the economic newspaper Financial Times That the intelligence community closely monitored a construction site near Beijing, China, which would be the largest military command center in the world and whose size would be at least ten times greater than the Pentagon.
Bunkers and underground
Satellite images, studied by the American intelligence services and obtained by the newspaper, show a construction site of around 600 hectares, located 30 km southwest of Beijing, whose construction would have started in mid-2024. Deep holes are visible, just like a hundred cranes. According to military experts, they could house large armored bunkers intended to protect the military leaders of the Chinese army in the event of war, including nuclear.
Analysis of the images carried out by an expert at the request of Financial Times suggests the construction of several underground installations, connected by possible underground passages. Although the construction of the site is part of a “redevelopment of several years of the western outskirts of Beijing”, and that there is “no military presence visible on the site”, panels ” Stand to steal drones or take photos, “writes the newspaper.
“Surpass the United States”
“If confirmed, this new advanced underground command bunker […] reports Beijing’s intention to build not only a world -class conventional force, but also an advanced nuclear war capacity, “Dennis Wilder, former China analysis for CIA, told the economic newspaper Dennis Wilder. China Embassy in Washington said it was “not aware of details” and added that China was “committed to the path of peaceful development and a defensive defense policy”.
According to a former senior official of American intelligence services, “the size, the scale and the partially buried characteristics of the new installation suggest that it will replace” the former military complex of the Chinese army built during the Cold War . A specialist in China interviewed by the Financial Times Add that the characteristics of the site show the will of Xi Jinping to “surpass the United States”. “This fortress has only one goal: to serve as an apocalypse bunker for an increasingly sophisticated and efficient Chinese army.”