The always-transparent China has been building a submarine base near Sanya, on Hainan Island off its southern coast. This represents a further expansion of China’s presence in this South China Sea/Paracel Islands area–a build-up that has been going on for the last twenty years.
What I find interesting is that FoxNews calls this a secret submarine base, even though it is clearly not secret. I know about it. You know about it. The world knows about it. It’s been known, in fact, since 2002. So, how secret is it?
Jane’s, the venerable publisher of military periodicals and books, has a more sober take on the matter, simply calling it “a major underground nuclear submarine base.”
