China’s People’s Liberation Army ( PLA ) is reportedly building a new command center in the capital, Beijing, that, upon completion, will be at least 10 times larger than the US Pentagon.
Financial Times , said , that the design of the mega-sized service, which has been widely reported in , mainstream , advertising, has raised concern among American intelligence firms, which think Beijing is preparing for a large-scale or perhaps nuclear conflict.  ,
The initiative under development is on a 1, 500-acre page 30 kilometers south of Beijing, according to the FT report, newly-analyzed dish images revealed. The photographs showed at least 100 crane operating over a five-square-kilometer place.
According to the report, military experts believe the facility will house high-level bunkers to protect the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s ( CPP ) leaders in the event of a major conflict. It claimed that midway through the 20th century the hospital had been constructed.
According to some, the project’s name,” Beijing Military City,” may eventually become the largest military command centre in the world.  ,
FT reported that security guards blocked writers who attempted to travel near the building site. The blog is a military-related place, according to a local business owner.  ,
The document coincided with US President Donald Trump’s contact for building an wide, next-generation” Iron Dome” missile defence weapon for the island US. The weapon, which will cover many more ground than Israel’s, may be designed to deflect intercontinental ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles.  ,
As China observes the Chinese New Year on January 28 through February 4, the country’s Foreign Ministry has yet to respond to the FT review and Trump’s Iron Dome system.  ,
It is no mystery, however, that China now has nuclear tanks and underwater military command centers. In 2017, China Central TV reported that the PLA’s control office in Xishan in west Beijing is 100 feet beneath. According to the statement, PLA soldiers have been directing military exercises that since 2013.
” Our land adopts an active security strategy”, Qian Qihu, a Taiwanese military expert, told CCTV in an interview in August 2022. ” As we don’t fire the first shot, we need to protect ourselves from our enemy’s first attack, then we can fight back”.
” Our corporate arms must be fully protected. We may be able to keep ourselves safe from any of the enemy’s problems, including nuclear hits”, Qian said. ” As the army’s methods of attacks continue to evolve, our protection techniques also need to develop. And we shouldn’t rely on just one security tactic.
After graduating from Harbin Engineering University in 1961, Qian was transferred to the Soviet Union’s Kuybyshev Military Engineering Academy, which is now known as the Combined Arms Academy of the Russian Federation, to analyze military architecture and geography.
In Kuybyshev ( also known as Samara before 1935 and after 1991 ), Qian learned how the Soviet Union constructed a vault in 1942 for its supreme leader Joseph Stalin.
The service, 37 meters below the surface, was aimed to get Stalin’s other military command offices. However, it was never used by Stalin, and it even served as a 1990s visitor attraction.
After China successfully tested its first hydrogen weapon in June 1967 with the help of the Soviet Union, Qian led China’s growth of nuclear-resistant properties.  ,
As the West developed large artillery projectiles ( MOP) capable of destroying targets hundreds of meters below the surface, Qian led a team of researchers to style underground tanks in the 1980s.
Today, the United States ‘ GBU-57A/B MOP may reach 60-meter-thick plaster and as far as 200 feet underground.  ,  ,
Hsu Yen-chi, a researcher for the Taipei-based Council on Strategic and Wargaming Studies, told the media that the Beijing construction project is more like an operational body or a sizable training facility than a radioactive basement.
In fact, the Army has previously located a location close to where it would build its atomic basement.  ,
In January 2018, Qin Dajun, a lieutenant scientist at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the South China Morning Post that Chinese analysts found a solutional bunker suitable for building a nuclear-resistant basement.
He said the large stone cave, located at the Xishan Forest Park, 20 km southwest of Beijing, has a healthy water supply. He said the grotto is 2, 000 feet beneath, compared with the degree of 2, 200 feet of Krubera Cave in Georgia.
Qin made his remarks after North Korea defied Beijing’s orders to examine its nuclear weapons in 2017.  ,
Even if the CCP has the resources and a heavy cave to construct a nuclear basement, according to some observers, it would not be wise to cover all gathering leaders in a single location during a war.  ,
Canada-based Chinese critic Wen Zhao , says , on his YouTube channel that when a war breaks out, CCP officials may disguise in different areas to improve their success chances. He claims that a mega-military command center will trigger more enemy military assaults than usual.  ,
In fact, some other observers predicted that CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping would relocate to Xian in Shaanxi during the war because the city’s high mountains and missile systems make it safe for the city.  ,
In 1900, when the troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance, led by the US, France and Germany, marched into Beijing, Qing Empress Cixi fled to Xian, where she claimed to enjoy hunting, and stayed there for a year.
Yong Jian contributes to the Asia Times. He is a Chinese journalist who specializes in Chinese technology, economy and politics.  ,