The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has deployed new, longer range, ballistic missiles on six of its nuclear-powered submarines, enabling them to strike the continental United States while situated closer to China’s coastline. U.S. military experts believe that the United States should send submarines to patrol the South China Sea to track Chinese submarines, as doing so would reduce the value of the CCP’s strategic nuclear arsenal.
On Nov. 18, Admiral Sam Paparo, head of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, told military reporters at a conference in Washington that China’s six Jin-class submarines are now “equipped with JL-3 intercontinental ballistic missiles,” Bloomberg reported.
