{"id":66966,"date":"2024-09-27T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/26\/china-nuclear-submarine-sinks"},"modified":"2024-09-27T05:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:40:00","slug":"chinas-newest-nuclear-submarine-sank-in-dock-us-officials-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66966","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s newest nuclear submarine sank in dock, US officials confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loss of state-of-the-art vessel in May or June is setback to Chinese push for naval parity with US<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s efforts to achieve maritime military parity with the US have suffered a serious blow after its newest state-of-the-art nuclear submarine sank in a dock, American officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened last May or June at the Wuchang shipyard near Wuhan \u2013 the same city where the Covid-19 pandemic is believed to have originated \u2013 and came to light, thanks to satellite imagery, despite efforts by the country\u2019s communist authorities to stage a cover-up.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/26\/china-nuclear-submarine-sinks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loss of state-of-the-art vessel in May or June is setback to Chinese push for naval parity with USChina\u2019s efforts to achieve maritime military parity with the US have suffered a serious blow after its newest state-of-the-art nuclear submarine sank in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66967,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66966\/revisions\/66967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}