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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019722)" |
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| CHAPTER |
| 22 |
| The Chinese Puzzle |
| The first [false assumption] is that China is an enemy of the |
| United States. It's not. |
| -EDWARD SNOWDEN, Hong Kong, 2013 |
| N AUGUST II, 2014, in the Atlantic Ocean, an event took place |
| of enormous concern to U.S. intelligence. A Chinese Jin-class |
| submarine launched an intercontinental ballistic missile. The missile |
| released twelve independently targeted reentry vehicles, each simu- |
| lating a nuclear warhead. Some forty-four hundred miles away, in |
| China's test range in the Xinjiang desert, each of the twelve simu- |
| lated nuclear warheads hit its target within a twelve-inch radius. |
| The test firing, which was closely monitored by the NSA, was a |
| strategic game changer. It meant that a single Jin-class submarine, |
| which carried twelve such missiles and 144 nuclear warheads, could |
| destroy every city of strategic importance in the United States. U.S. |
| intelligence further reported that China would soon use stealth |
| technology to make it more difficult to detect newer submarines and |
| give "China its first credible sea-based nuclear deterrent" against an |
| American attack. |
| By 2015, as its test in the Atlantic had foreshadowed, China had |
| armed its land-based as well as sea-based missiles with multiple |
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