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China embarks on construction of vast new military complex
03 February 2025
China is set to start building a huge new military complex outside Beijing that could be up to 10 times larger than the Pentagon in the US.
Soldiers of China鈥檚 People鈥檚 Liberation Army (Image: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
That鈥檚 according to a in the Financial Times, based on information from satellite imagery company Planet Labs.
Planet Labs has captured images of a construction site spread across a 6-square-kilometre (2.3-square-mile) area, 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) southwest of Beijing.
A former US intelligence official told the newspaper that the facility is likely to be a new secure command centre, complete with partially buried bunker structures, that would replace the Cold War-era Western Hills command centre, as the People鈥檚 Liberation Army becomes more sophisticated.
The Chinese embassy in Washington said it was 鈥渘ot aware of the details鈥� of the facility, where up to 100 cranes are currently thought to be in operation.
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