{"id":134581,"date":"2025-01-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134581"},"modified":"2025-01-31T06:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:02:46","slug":"ft-china-builds-huge-wartime-military-command-centre-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134581","title":{"rendered":"(FT) China builds huge wartime military command centre in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0China\u2019s military is building a massive complex in western Beijing that US intelligence believes will serve as a wartime command centre far larger than the Pentagon, according to current and former American officials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Satellite images obtained by the Financial Times that are being examined by US intelligence show a roughly 1,500-acre construction site 30km south-west of Beijing with deep holes that military experts assess will house large, hardened bunkers to protect Chinese military leaders during any conflict \u2014 including potentially a nuclear war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several current and former US officials said the intelligence community was closely monitoring the site, which would be the world\u2019s largest military command centre \u2014 and at least 10 times the size of the Pentagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f3763e51-8607-42b9-9ef9-5789d5bf353d\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SCOOP China builds huge new wartime military command centre in western Beijing &#8211; 10 times the size of the Pentagon <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/19nxQg0MqM\">https:\/\/t.co\/19nxQg0MqM<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ft<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Demetri (@Dimi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dimi\/status\/1885081072389533734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0China\u2019s military is building a massive complex in western Beijing that US intelligence believes will serve as a wartime command centre far larger than the Pentagon, according to current and former American officials. Satellite images obtained by the Financial Times<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134581\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,209,502,143,144,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-americau-s-a","category-china","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134584,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134581\/revisions\/134584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}