Reuters reported on Thursday, citing an unnamed senior U.S. defense official, that China’s newest nuclear attack submarine sank at a dock earlier this year. The cause of the sinking remains unclear.

China's defense ministry is bristling over a U.S. mid-range missile launcher in the Philippines and proposed deployment in Japan.

A senior U.S. defense official revealed on Thursday that China’s latest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank earlier this year. The incident reportedly occurred between May and June.

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American officials have confirmed that China's newest nuclear submarine sank in a dock. According to American officials the incident took place earlier this year between around May and June which came ...

T HE LAST time China fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) out over the Pacific, Xi Jinping was a callow 27-year ...

The nuclear-powered submarine sank sometime around May or June at a shipyard in the Wuhan province, as per a senior US defense official.

The Zhou-class submarine, China's first of its kind, reportedly sank while docked at the Wuchang shipyard near Wuhan between ...

Chinese media has also reported that the country's nuclear subs have been given the code name "09." China operates two types of nuclear-powered submarines, the Type 093/A attack submarine and the Type ...

Naval experts and US officials say vessel appears to have sunk in port, and may have been carrying nuclear fuel at the time ...

The U.S. official said it was "not surprising" that China's navy would conceal it. The submarine's current status is unknown.

Building a potent nuclear submarine force would help China tighten control over its peripheral waters and improve its ability ...