WASHINGTON -- The announcement this week that President Joe Biden had ordered a Chinese-owned crypto mining facility to vacate a plot of land close to a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming has raised questions on why China might be interested in the site.
While there is no proof that it was a spying operation, analysts told Nikkei Asia that China had every reason to try to observe up close the historic modernization of land-based strategic nuclear weapons that the U.S. is about to undertake over the next decade.
WASHINGTON -- The announcement this week that President Joe Biden had ordered a Chinese-owned crypto mining facility to vacate a plot of land close to a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming has raised questions on why China might be interested in the site.
While there is no proof that it was a spying operation, analysts told Nikkei Asia that China had every reason to try to observe up close the historic modernization of land-based strategic nuclear weapons that the U.S. is about to undertake over the next decade.
