China is building launch pads near its nuclear missile silos (opens in new tab)

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Golden Dome is meant to preemptively attack China's ICBMs "left of launch", for which they are building anti-satellite rockets and microwave systems as article notes, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3342443/chin...