A private researcher last week identified a major Chinese submarine demagnetization facility near the East China Sea fleet submarine base. The new demagnetization facility is located less than 10 km from the Kilo submarine base at Maocao Nong approximately 40 km southeast of Ningbo in the Zhejiang province. Hans M. Kristensen, a project director at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, said the facility is the second base used by China’s navy for submarine operations since 2008. The new facility is less than six miles from China’s base for Russian-made Kilo submarines at Moacao Nong, southeast of Ningbo, Zhejiang...