Maxime Marquette
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DECODING: Venezuela's earthquake death toll crosses the 4,000 threshold
On the evening of June 24, 2026, two earthquakes measuring magnitude 7.2 and then 7.5 struck Venezuela's northern coast, just thirty-nine seconds apart, according…
REPORT: A Chinese Missile in the Pacific Confirms the Western Doctrine
On July 6, 2026, at precisely noon, a Chinese nuclear submarine fired a ballistic missile from waters in the South China Sea toward the…
INVESTIGATION: Chinese Deterrence Now Puts Itself on Display in the Pacific
On July 6, 2026, a nuclear submarine of the Chinese navy fired a ballistic missile into international waters of the Pacific, according to Reuters…
EDITORIAL: Beijing and Moscow Tighten Their Naval Grip on the Pacific
From July 6 to 13, 2026, the Chinese and Russian navies conducted, in the Yellow Sea, the joint exercise Marine Interaction 2026, also called…
COLUMN: The Chinese Missile Reshaping the Pacific's Undersea Nuclear Balance
On July 6, 2026, a little after noon, a nuclear-powered Chinese submarine fired a ballistic missile toward international waters in the Pacific.
FACT-CHECK: Did Beijing really violate the South Pacific nuclear-free zone
Since China's ballistic missile launch of July 6, 2026, a precise accusation has been circulating in several Pacific capitals: Beijing allegedly violated the spirit,…
REPORT: Type 094, the submarine that pulled China into the naval nuclear age
There exist weapons known mostly through their silences. The Type 094 submarine, also called the Jin class, belongs to that category.
FACT-CHECK: Maritime Interaction 2026, what the China-Russia naval exercise really shows
Since the launch of the joint naval exercise Maritime Interaction 2026, also called Joint Sea 2026, between China and Russia in the Yellow Sea,…
FACT-CHECK: The Washington-Tokyo-Canberra united front on the Chinese launch, real or overstated
After a Chinese ballistic missile launch from a submarine on July 6, 2026, a claim spread quickly through the Western press: the United States,…