Maxime Marquette
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REPORT: The South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone, Violated in Spirit by Beijing
On July 6, 2026, a ballistic missile fired from a Chinese submarine traveled roughly 7,000 kilometers before splashing down near the islands of Nauru…
DECODING: China's Type 094 Nuclear Submarine at the Center of a Contested Launch
On July 6, 2026, around noon, the Chinese navy launched a ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine toward the Pacific Ocean.
DECODING: Marine Interaction 2026, the naval drill that binds Beijing and Moscow
While the world was commenting on the Chinese ballistic missile launch of July 6, 2026, fired from a nuclear submarine toward the Pacific, another…
ANALYSIS: The US, Japan, Australia tighten their common front against Beijing
The ballistic missile launch carried out by a Chinese nuclear submarine on July 6, 2026 produced an effect rarely observed with such clarity: near-simultaneous…
REPORT: How Beijing brought its navy into the strategic nuclear era
On Monday, July 6, 2026, around noon Beijing time, a Chinese nuclear submarine fired a ballistic missile carrying a dummy warhead from the South…
PROFILE: Nauru, tiny Pacific state caught in the path of a Chinese missile
First, the geography needs setting, because scale changes everything in this story. Nauru is the smallest independent island state in the world, an island…
COMMENTARY: Beijing fires a submarine missile into the Pacific and nobody is reassured
Some military gestures read like full sentences. On Monday, July 6, 2026, around noon Beijing time, a Chinese nuclear submarine fired a ballistic missile…
REPORT: Defense budgets, the new measure of Western power
Walking away from the NATO summit held in Ankara on July 7 and 8, 2026, one pattern stood out above every other: this gathering…
INVESTIGATION: Western defense industry buckles under production strain
This investigation starts with a number that Western military experts have been repeating with growing urgency since the NATO summit held in Ankara on…