Area 51
Beijing: China, a nation that has triggered interest globally over numerous issues in recent years, is allegedly developing its own version of Area 51 in the middle of a remote radioactive desert, media reports said.
Satellite images of the mysterious site emerged as the race between Beijing and the West to develop secret weapons and super stealth aircraft gathered pace, The Sun reported.
"I think we're observing what appears to be a pretty important facility for China's military space activities that appears to be growing," Ankit Panda, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who tracks space issues, told NPR.
The runway, on the edge of China's former nuclear weapons test range at Lop Nur, sprung from nowhere in 2016. In 2020, observers believe that China landed a highly classified "space plane" there, reports NPR.
Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility located within the Nevada Test and Training Range.
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