New Chinese Nuclear Missile Base Discovered

I came across this item at Hot Air, and was intrigued by a passage in the post:

The region has long been rumored to house nuclear missiles and I have previously described some of the facilities in a report and a blog. But the new analysis reveals a significantly larger deployment area than previously known, different types of launch pads, command and control facilities, and missile deployment equipment at a large facility in downtown Delingha.

The Chinese located a missile base in the middle of a city? Here's a photo that accompanies the article.

Still, that photo doesn't quite tell the full story, so with a little Google-fu, I found the coordinates:


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The photo accompanying the story is an oblique angle of the same items in the map. Just zoom in several times to get the area in to clear focus.

So, why would the Chinese locate this base in this location? Well, it would put Chinese missiles in range of Russian missiles, and the two countries are rivals with a long border and longstanding grudges over access to mineral and oil deposits, to say nothing of influence over events in Asia.