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Currently and former US officials, Chinese troops have built large -scale complex facilities in the western part of Beijing, and the US Intelligence Rewelry believes that it will function as a wartime command center much larger than Pentagon. 。
The satellite images obtained by the FT inspected by the US Intelligence Representative are Chinese military leaders during the conflict in the construction site of about 1,500 acres of 30 km southwest of Beijing, which has a deep hole evaluated by military experts. It indicates that a large -scale hardened bunker is housed to protect. Potentially nuclear war.
Currently and former US officials have stated that the Intelligne report is the world’s largest military command center, monitoring sites that are 10 times the size of Pentagon.
One Chinese researcher who is familiar with images said, “This fortress has only one purpose of the end of China as a end -of -life bunker for an increasingly sophisticated and competent army in China. Masu.”
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Other things that keep the tabs today and weekends are as follows.
Economic Data: Australia issues the producer price index inflation rate data in December, and Japan will release the latest labor survey.
Result: Samsung Electronics, Tokyo Gas, Exxonmobil, FUJITSU, Hitachi, Komatsu reported revenue.
Israel Hama’s ceasefire contract: Israel’s three hostages will be released on Saturdays in exchange for dozens of Palestinian prisoners.
Further 5 top stories
1. Openai targets $ 300 million in a large new SoftBank funding round. SoftBank will invest in Chatgpt-Maker between $ 15 billion and $ 25 billion. This is an investment in the center of a wide range of funding rounds, which can raise $ 400 billion for artificial intelligence companies. Unprecedented sizes in the latest round suggest that the willingness of investors who support the top emerging companies in the United States has not been impaired by China’s deep seek.
Other AI News: Mark Zuckerberg has promised to spend hundreds of billions on AI to promote meta into a dominant position after DeepSeek’s revelation shakes the market this week.
2. The Indian government has been under pressure to improve economic deceleration since Prime Minister Narendra Modi gained power more than 10 years ago. Nirmara Citaraman will clarify the first complete budget of Modi’s third term on Saturday. This indicates what to expect.
Do you have any questions about your budget? Send them to us, and we will answer them on the special weekend version of the newsletter. Reply or press e -mail firstft@ft.com
More Indian News: The Million Million Million Ambani family has won the first shares of the Eight British Cricket Team shares on the auctions by sports governing.
3. The rescuer does not believe that there will be survivors between 67 passengers and crews who enter the Potomac River after colliding outside Washington on Wednesday night. This is what you know about crashes.
Trump’s reaction: Donald Trump has accused Donald Trump for the Democratic Party for a fatal collision, diversity, fairness, and inclusion policy.
4. The US economy has grown at an annual rate of 2.3 % per year in the fourth quarter. This is weaker than expected of the year dominated by the resilience of American consumers. Yesterday’s GDP number comes after Jay Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, is not in a hurry to reduce interest rates.
European Economy: European Central Bank reduced interest rates to a quarter point and reduced to 2.75 %. This is a decision that was made a few hours later in the fourth quarter, unexpectedly, indicating that the Euro -sphere economy was stagnant.
5. Hedge Fands warns Hedge Fund Elliott, in which the Trump administration’s cryptocurrency has helped to fuel speculative enthusiasts, which could cause “big turmoil” when prices collapse. According to an investor’s letter seen by the FT, the $ 70 billion asset company aimed for the US government’s clear enthusiasm for assets, with a rapid rise in prices.
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Donald Trump has ordered the most ambitious missile shield work this week this week. A missile shield called the “American iron dome” is constructed to destroy hyper sonic missiles and prevent nuclear disappearance. However, nuclear experts have also warned that the initiative could provoke China and Russia to provocate the accelerated military expansion to maintain nuclear parity. How this works.
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