{"id":139476,"date":"2025-09-04T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139476"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:24:07","slug":"nyt-chinas-latest-missiles-drones-and-submarines-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139476","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) China\u2019s Latest Missiles, Drones and Submarines, Up Close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>At its military parade on Wednesday<\/strong>, China showcased hypersonic missiles to sink ships, drones that serve as wingmen and nuclear-capable ballistic missiles that can strike the continental United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The jets that screamed across the sky and the columns of missiles and armored vehicles that rolled past Tiananmen Square in Beijing provided a rare look at China\u2019s new weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The massive military parade,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/d1877ac5-b4fa-4099-bd9a-caf76c9af9f2?j=eyJ1Ijoibjc4YyJ9.8s_t3ty-k5oATlBcG60JcX5BI33eF8wanVxAHwlsoyc\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">presided over<\/a>&nbsp;by China\u2019s leader Xi Jinping, was a warning to his country\u2019s prospective foes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The anti-ship missiles seemed tailor-made to menace American forces in the Asia-Pacific region. Long-range rocket launchers magnified Beijing\u2019s threat to Taiwan, the self-governed island democracy. The armored vehicles that can be dropped from planes appeared to extend China\u2019s ability to defend its growing global interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If one theme stood out, analysts said, it was that the People\u2019s Liberation Army is betting on unmanned systems to gain a potential edge in battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/09\/03\/world\/asia\/china-military-parade-weapons.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China\u2019s Latest Missiles, Drones and Submarines, Up Close<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PYguT31WQg\">https:\/\/t.co\/PYguT31WQg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FJ (@Natsecjeff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Natsecjeff\/status\/1963281518958403948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its military parade on Wednesday, China showcased hypersonic missiles to sink ships, drones that serve as wingmen and nuclear-capable ballistic missiles that can strike the continental United States. The jets that screamed across the sky and the columns of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139476\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,106,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-military-armed-forces","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139479,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139476\/revisions\/139479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}