Hong Kong, Feb. 4 -- Chairman Xi Jinping is very serious in his admonitions that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) should get ready for war. Such preparations are literally and very visibly seen in the hardening of military air bases and the construction of a brand new command complex to protect personnel against bombardment.

Satellite imagery reveals numerous projects to fortify PLA facilities, but the most startling of all is a brand new command complex currently under construction some 25-30km west-southwest of the center of capital city Beijing.

In late January the Financial Times broke the news of this massive facility presumably designed to act as a wartime command-and-control center for the PLA. The site covers approximately 1,5...