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Posts published in “Day: October 25, 2014

Deep Threat: China’s Submarines Add Nuclear-Strike Capability, Altering Strategic Balance

  By Jeremy Page in The Wall St Journal, Oct. 24, 2014 Soldiers stand on guard next to a Chinese navy nuclear-missile submarine at the Qingdao base in eastern China. Yin Haiyang/Color China Photo/Associated Press   One Sunday morning last December, China’s defense ministry summoned military attachés from several embassies to its monolithic Beijing headquarters.   To the foreigners’ surprise, the Chinese said that one of their nuclear-powered submarines would soon pass through the Strait…