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Dates: during 1971-1971
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What remains uncertain is what Peking really wants for the estimated $1.5 billion a year (around 2% of China's gross national product) that it spends on missiles and warheads. Pads for testing medium-and intermediate-range missiles have been built at Huhehot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia, and at a new site in the mountains of Manchuria's Kirin Province, from which IRBMs can be fired over a 2,000-mile range to barren Sinkiang Province. But there are no signs that China is even ready to test a full-blown intercontinental ballistic missile, which would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Digging the Silos | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

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