For decades, the U.S. hasn’t had to worry much about China’s submarines. They were noisy and easy to track. The Chinese military, meanwhile, struggled to detect America’s ultraquiet submarines.
Now, China is narrowing one of the biggest gaps separating the U.S. and Chinese militaries as it makes advances in its submarine technology and undersea detection capabilities, with major implications for American military planning for a potential conflict over Taiwan.
Early this year, China put to sea a nuclear-powered attack submarine with a pump-jet propulsion system instead of a propeller, satellite imagery showed. It was the first time noise-reducing technology used on the latest American submarines had been seen on a Chinese submarine.
The developments mean the era of unchallenged dominance of the U.S. under the seas around China is ending.
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Do the advancements in China's submarine technology make you reconsider the importance of military superiority in international relations?
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i guess. anything involving the military never crosses my mind, stuff like that just doesn’t happen here
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