China increases ability to strike U.S. with sub-carried missiles

Fox ^ | 20 Nov 2022 | Greg Wehner

[blueplum]

U.S. Pacific Fleet leader says China's new missiles can reach U.S. from its own waters.

...U.S. Navy Admiral Samuel Paparo, the head of the U.S. Pacific Fleet told a group of military reporters in Washington on Friday that China’s Jin-class submarines are "equipped with JL-3 intercontinental ballistic missiles," Bloomberg reported....

[blueplum]

so-called 'developing nation' ?

[SaveFerris]

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Thanks, free traitors.

[Campion]

Didn’t they get the tech they needed to miniaturize their warheads and guidance systems from the Clintons, in exchange for cash? Thanks, Democrats!

[17th Miss Regt]

Miniaturizing the warheads, no. But they did get the ability to MIRV their missiles and to greatly improve the reliability of their missiles from Loral and Hughes during the Clinton administration.

[MGunny]

You can all thank the Bill Clinton regime for giving the ChiComs the necessary ingredients to surpass us in technology. Remember the LORAN Corporation?

[RinaseaofDs]

You mean Loral Space?

I do. They gave the Chinese solid rocket fuel tech that allowed them to start fielding ballistic missiles.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Any tech they got from Clinton would be over 20 years old by now.

The tech they got since then, as well as the money to build up their military, was a direct result of the free trade deals.

[17th Miss Regt]

Any tech they got from Clinton would be over 20 years old by now.

While that is true, it does not change the impact. Prior to the Clinton deals the Chinese were not able to get MIRVing right so they were limited to a single warhead on their missiles. But once they learned how to reliably MIRV their missiles, they could put multiple warheads on future missiles, greatly increasing the threat from those missiles.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

The problem with tis is that we knew all of this going into those free trade deals with the communists in China, and we dived in anyway.

Did we honestly think they wouldn't steal the technology we sent over there, when they already had?

And what did we think they were going to do with all of those consumer dollars that we sent over there? Spend it building up OUR military?

And for what? To save a few pennies on communist made goods? How is that working out?

We can blame Clinton for what he did and rightfully so, but that doesn't excuse our side for passing these trade deals even after knowing all of this.

Yes I know all Freepers didn't support those trade deals, but those that did know who they are.

[17th Miss Regt]

I agree with you on the impact of all the free trade deals. Anyone that thought they would deal with us on an honest basis and honor the trade deals scrupulously fails to understand the Chinese culture and therefore the Chinese business environment.

Similarly, anyone that thinks that there are any large, independent Chinese businesses that are not subservient to the Chinese Communist Party fails to understand the Chinese business environment.