The Japan Times67%
Missile test marks new phase in expansion of China’s nuclear-armed submarine force 73%
By Jesse Johnson75%
7/7/2026, 7:40:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Confirmation Bias, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 55.4% saturation with 72 hits. Analysis detected 431 faulty-reasoning hits from 130 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.4% and a BS Rank of 73% (5,906 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.00% of the article peer group.
China’s test Monday of a nuclear-capable long-range missile from one of its advanced submarines contained implicit messages for Japan, the U.S. and others, but it also highlighted a new phase in the rapid expansion in Beijing’s nuclear-armed submarine force.
The launch was the first known full-range — or near-full-range — flight test of a Chinese long-range submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) deep into the Pacific, according to several experts.
China has long been understood to possess the capability, but Monday’s test was the first public demonstration.
The test-firing of the “strategic missile” into the Pacific Ocean came after Tokyo, which received notice some 90 minutes before the launch, according to Japanese officials, “strongly urged” Beijing to reconsider the move.
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