"Sneakiness: I knew they were up to something  The Chinese missile frigate Yulin fires an anti-surface gun battery last month during exercises with singapore's navy  in the South China Sea. Some analysts fear China is e  its presence in the sea soit can concealits submarines  ASIA  China may be using sea  to hide its submarines  a to  and certainly not to furth- It  also that developed by the United States was easily th  er militarize outposts in has at least three nuclear  United States and Russia. tracking their submarines  D  the South China Sea.""  powered submarines ca- Its submarine  is in the open ocean.  nual  The South China Sea  pable of launching ballis- a major part of that push. So the Soviets created te  bounded by Vietnam,  tic missiles and plan-  Since  can heavily mined and forti-  China, Taiwan, Japan, the ning to add five more,  often avoid detection,  fied zones for their subs to  h  Philippines and Malaysia according to a Pentagon  they are less vulnerable to operate as dose to the  t  1- is one of the world's most report released last year.  a first-strike attack than United States as possible.  if important shipping lanes.  In an April media brief- land-based intercontinen- One was in the White Sea  China asserts it holds  ing in Washington, a top tal ballistic missiles or of northwest Russia and  of  US Navy said the nuclear bombers.  the other was in the Sea maritime rights to 80  watching  China's JL2 submarine Okhotsk, north of Japan, Sneaky 
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