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| Type 092 Xia-Class SSBN (File Photo) |
By Zachary Keck
A number of state run Chinese newspapers ran an article last week boasting of China’s ability to launch nuclear attacks against the United States, according to multiple media outlets in the Western world and Taiwan.
As The Diplomat reported last week, China’s state-run media outlets last week ran a number of articles giving an unprecedented amount of information about the soon-to-be-retired Type 092 Xia-Class ballistic missile nuclear submarine (SSBN).
According to reports in The Washington Times, WantChinaTimes and UK Daily Mail, separate Chinese-language articles in publications like the Global Times described in detail China’s plans to use China’s new Type 094 SSBNs to attack major U.S. cities in the event of a nuclear exchange. According to WantChinaTimes, the article bragged that Type 094 Jin-class SSBNs carrying the new JL-2 ballistic missiles could reach the western United States without leaving the Second Island Chain.
Read the full story at The Diplomat