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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: The Indo-Pacific becomes the world's new center of gravity
On July 6, 2026, at one minute past noon Beijing time, a Chinese navy nuclear submarine broke the silent surface of the Pacific to…
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.