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China Bangun Bunker Komando Tahan Nuklir, Luasnya 10X Pentagon
China building ‘doomsday’ command 10 times bigger than the Pentagon
Demetri Sevastopulo, Joe Leahy, Ryan McMorrow
4–5 minutes
Renny Babiarz, a former imagery analyst at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency who has analysed imagery of the area, says there are at least 100 cranes working over a 5 square kilometre area developing underground infrastructure.
This fortress only serves one purpose, which is to act as a doomsday bunker for China’s increasingly sophisticated and capable military.
— China researcher
“Imagery analysis suggests the construction of several possible underground facilities linked via possible underground passageways, although additional data and information is needed to more fully assess this construction,” says Babiarz, now vice-president of analysis and operations at AllSource Analysis, a geospatial analysis service group.
The site in western Beijing was busy with construction activity earlier in January, in contrast to a dearth of development in most big real estate projects in China, which has been gripped by a property sector crisis.
There were no showrooms typically associated with a commercial real estate project. Unusually for a commercial project, there are no official mentions of the construction site on the internet in Chinese.
While there was no visible military presence at the site, there were signs warning against flying drones or taking photographs. Guards at one gate abruptly said that entry was prohibited and refused to talk about the project. One supervisor leaving the construction site refused to comment on the project.
The People’s Liberation Army’s new stealth fighter jets on display at an exhibition in Zhuhai in November. Bloomberg
Access to the back of the project has been blocked by a checkpoint. A guard said the public could not access popular hiking and tourist areas near the site, which a local shopkeeper described as a “military area”.
One former senior US intelligence official says that while the PLA’s current headquarters in central Beijing is fairly new it was not designed to be a secure combat command centre.
“China’s main secure command centre is in the Western Hills, north-east of the new facility, and was built decades ago at the height of the cold war,” says the former official.
“The size, scale and partially buried characteristics of the new facility suggest it will replace the Western Hills complex as the primary wartime command facility.
“Chinese leaders may judge that the new facility will enable greater security against US ‘bunker buster’ munitions, and even against nuclear weapons. It can also incorporate more advanced and secure communications and have room for expanding PLA capabilities and missions.”
Deep underground tunnelling
One China researcher familiar with the images says the site has “all the hallmarks of a sensitive military facility”, including heavily reinforced concrete and deep underground tunnelling.
“Nearly 10 times bigger than the Pentagon, it’s fitting for Xi Jinping’s ambitions to surpass the US,” says the researcher. “This fortress only serves one purpose, which is to act as a doomsday bunker for China’s increasingly sophisticated and capable military.”
The construction of the site comes amid a multi-year redevelopment of Beijing’s western outskirts. But there has been speculation online in China about why houses in the Qinglonghu area are being razed.
In one post on Baidu Zhidao, the Chinese search engine’s equivalent of Quora, one user says: “Are they going to build the Chinese Pentagon in Qinglonghu?”
Two people close to Taiwan’s defence ministry also say the PLA appears to be building a new command centre, though some experts question if the area is suitable for underground bunkers.
“The land area is much larger than a normal military camp and military school, so it can only be assumed that it is a site for an administrative organisation or a large training base,” says Hsu Yen-chi, a researcher at the Council on Strategic and Wargaming Studies think-tank in Taipei.
https://www.afr.com/world/asia/china...0250131-p5l8m4
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Demetri Sevastopulo, Joe Leahy, Ryan McMorrow
4–5 minutes
Renny Babiarz, a former imagery analyst at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency who has analysed imagery of the area, says there are at least 100 cranes working over a 5 square kilometre area developing underground infrastructure.
This fortress only serves one purpose, which is to act as a doomsday bunker for China’s increasingly sophisticated and capable military.
— China researcher
“Imagery analysis suggests the construction of several possible underground facilities linked via possible underground passageways, although additional data and information is needed to more fully assess this construction,” says Babiarz, now vice-president of analysis and operations at AllSource Analysis, a geospatial analysis service group.
The site in western Beijing was busy with construction activity earlier in January, in contrast to a dearth of development in most big real estate projects in China, which has been gripped by a property sector crisis.
There were no showrooms typically associated with a commercial real estate project. Unusually for a commercial project, there are no official mentions of the construction site on the internet in Chinese.
While there was no visible military presence at the site, there were signs warning against flying drones or taking photographs. Guards at one gate abruptly said that entry was prohibited and refused to talk about the project. One supervisor leaving the construction site refused to comment on the project.
The People’s Liberation Army’s new stealth fighter jets on display at an exhibition in Zhuhai in November. Bloomberg
Access to the back of the project has been blocked by a checkpoint. A guard said the public could not access popular hiking and tourist areas near the site, which a local shopkeeper described as a “military area”.
One former senior US intelligence official says that while the PLA’s current headquarters in central Beijing is fairly new it was not designed to be a secure combat command centre.
“China’s main secure command centre is in the Western Hills, north-east of the new facility, and was built decades ago at the height of the cold war,” says the former official.
“The size, scale and partially buried characteristics of the new facility suggest it will replace the Western Hills complex as the primary wartime command facility.
“Chinese leaders may judge that the new facility will enable greater security against US ‘bunker buster’ munitions, and even against nuclear weapons. It can also incorporate more advanced and secure communications and have room for expanding PLA capabilities and missions.”
Deep underground tunnelling
One China researcher familiar with the images says the site has “all the hallmarks of a sensitive military facility”, including heavily reinforced concrete and deep underground tunnelling.
“Nearly 10 times bigger than the Pentagon, it’s fitting for Xi Jinping’s ambitions to surpass the US,” says the researcher. “This fortress only serves one purpose, which is to act as a doomsday bunker for China’s increasingly sophisticated and capable military.”
The construction of the site comes amid a multi-year redevelopment of Beijing’s western outskirts. But there has been speculation online in China about why houses in the Qinglonghu area are being razed.
In one post on Baidu Zhidao, the Chinese search engine’s equivalent of Quora, one user says: “Are they going to build the Chinese Pentagon in Qinglonghu?”
Two people close to Taiwan’s defence ministry also say the PLA appears to be building a new command centre, though some experts question if the area is suitable for underground bunkers.
“The land area is much larger than a normal military camp and military school, so it can only be assumed that it is a site for an administrative organisation or a large training base,” says Hsu Yen-chi, a researcher at the Council on Strategic and Wargaming Studies think-tank in Taipei.
https://www.afr.com/world/asia/china...0250131-p5l8m4
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