09V/09VI (095/096) Nuclear Submarine Thread

[Blitzo]

In fact the FT is reporting on Kurt Campbell's statements earlier today, more accurately reported here:

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Submarine "operations" not technologies.

The entire section is written as:

In exchange for Beijing's help, Russia has started giving China submarine, missile and other sensitive technologies. Historically, Moscow has been wary of giving Beijing its very latest military technology.
"The capabilities that Russia is providing is support in areas where previously they had been frankly reluctant to engage directly with China," Campbell said. "We are concerned about a particular number of military arenas where there appears to be some determination to provide China with greater support.
"That has to do with submarine operations, activities of aeronautical design, including stealth; that also involves capacities on missile capabilities," he said.
According to Campbell, the new technologies that Beijing is receiving will pose a danger not just to the U.S., but also to India, Australia, Japan and South Korea "if China was able to receive greater engagement from Russia in perfecting certain military capabilities."

Campbell mentions submarine operations specifically while the rest of the article in that section talks about "technologies".

The fact that it's all vague and non-specific by others (including FT as well as the Politico article itself) and including "technologies" and specifically about "096" in the FT article is not a surprise -- again it's probably reflective of incompetence.

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Overall I think this "news" from FT (and even the original comments by Campbell) are not worthy of genuine discussion.

The most it deserves here in this thread brief bit of commentary like "this article is demonstrating incompetence and any related news to it is not worth our time and thread space".