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China building world’s largest military command centre – 10 times bigger than Pentagon (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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The images, obtained by the Financial Times, suggest major construction of the project began in mid-2024, as the People’s Liberation Army gears up for its centenary in 2027.

Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, has repeatedly warned that he intends to annex Taiwan by then, posing a major threat to the US, which relies on Taipei for its supply of microchips.

Dennis Wilder, the former head of China analysis for the CIA, said that if verified, the new complex signalled Beijing’s intention to develop its “advanced nuclear war-fighting capability”.

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[–] Maggoty 14 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

That's one huge target. The US built theirs in 1941 and as the Cold War proved a support centralized structure was vulnerable they took care to distribute actual command and communications. I'm not sure why the Chinese are doing this instead of distributed command structures.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 6 hours ago

A sense of invulnerability.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

To show off? The real stuff probably would be distributed as well.

[–] Maggoty 5 points 10 hours ago

Good point

[–] gibmiser 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Well, if I were a superpower, I would be tryingto fight cold wars, not hot wars. And I don't think it matters in that case

[–] Maggoty 1 points 7 hours ago

Well that would be bearding the dragon then because they have a stated goal of grabbing Taiwan in the next few years. Which has been acknowledged as a start to a hot war for decades.