Hi, guys, I'm new here. I just want to pop a question. Do you think it's possible China didn't turn on the "device" under the Great Wall, but instead, turned it off. Surely, turning on a thing like that (whatever its function) would have immediately put the US and the rest of the western countries on Defcon 1. In that situation, China wouldn't even entertain the notion of letting anybody know what they found there, if turning it on would set everybody on edge. The opposite, however, is more logical because what would the US and allies do? They can't bomb the thing, that would just turn the device off permanently. They need to invade China to keep the device on, and China can threaten to just blow it up to stop any aggression, and along with it, whatever it keeps in check or in balance. Feel free to trash this idea if it's been dealt with before. I only started at around page 800.