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China seems to be ramping up something. Remember what I said about China wanting access to or control of Southwest Asia\u2019s rare earth spots? Well, the USGS some time back did a mineralogical analysis and Afghanistan is LOADED with rare earths.<\/p>\n
And just what are those minerals used for? Look at your phone\u2026 your computer, your tablet, your microwave, your house alarm, your confounded car and all its electronic components. Everything you all take for granted is full of those minerals, once they are extracted and refined. It isn\u2019t just coming from Congo and other parts of Africa. If China has control of that area, Beijing does not give a crap what the radicals want, and China has enough manpower to wage ware without let or hindrance.<\/p>\n
Something\u2019s happenin’ out there.\u00a0 Hush, hey, what\u2019s that sound, everybody look, what\u2019s goin\u2019 down\u2026. – (paraphrased) Buffalo Springfield<\/p>\n
Okay, boys and girls, first things first: China\u2019s building nuclear missile silos on the desert sands in Xinjiang province, south of Ganzu province.\u00a0 https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/scientists-discover-massive-field-nuclear-044323563.html<\/a><\/p>\n It is located 240 miles northwest of Yumen, Gansu province, where around 120 under-construction missile bases were found just a month earlier by researchers at the Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) in California.<\/p>\n From the article:<\/p>\n \u201c-\u00a0 China may be building up to 110 nuclear silos, The New York Times reported. (Actual count so far is 119)<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Researchers believe the new silos could raise China’s nuclear capacity to more than 875 warheads.<\/p>\n –\u00a0 China is the third-largest nuclear power, but its arsenal is dwarfed by those of the US and Russia. – article<\/p>\n Meantime, the UK has entered the South China Sea (bordered by the Philippines, among other places) and China\/Beijing is objecting to it vehemently.<\/p>\n