![]() ![]() "Without knowing more details, it is difficult to ascertain what else this might say about the state of PLA Navy preparedness, efficiency, effectiveness and modernization," Blaxland said. "They will be reluctant to do that if the reports are true, and the longer they take to do that the stronger the circumstantial evidence suggests the initial reports are correct." John Blaxland, a professor of international security and intelligence studies at the Australian National University, stressed to Newsweek that the reports "remain inconclusive." However, he added: "Chinese denials mean little unless they are substantiated." "Theirs is a brutal system as far as accidents are concerned all are afraid to accept responsibility." or Japan as potential military opponents if they helped rescue Chinese sailors?" "Admitting the accident-if it occurred-would have been an embarrassment within their CCP hierarchy, and for both propaganda and counterintelligence purposes they certainly would not ask for assistance from U.S or Japan. "My belief is that the CCP would be even worse, even more secretive even if it would cost sailors' lives." "It is presumed that Russia did not want anyone to have access to the submarine lest they get classified information," Tangredi said of the Kursk disaster. Report of Donald Trump sharing submarine secrets rocks defense community.Is Russian Black Sea commander actually dead? What we know, what we don't. ![]() Taiwan's first homemade submarine arrives with eye on China tensions.Tangredi noted that the Russian Kursk submarine disaster of 2000, during which President Vladimir Putin refused offers of international rescue assistance, was the kind of pointed moment of weakness Putin has since been careful to avoid. "However, Taiwan authorities have stated that they have no evidence that the incident did occur, and they would not have an incentive to hide it." The Chinese Communist Party and People's Liberation Army Navy are not willing to admit mistakes." Naval War College's Institute for Future Warfare Studies, told Newsweek: "I don't know if the incident occurred. The Pentagon, asked by Newsweek to confirm or refute the report, declined to comment. The incident, the Daily Mail said, occurred in the Yellow Sea, somewhere off the coast of China's northeastern Shandong province. and allied submarines." The 55 sailors-among them 22 officers, including captain Colonel Xue Yong-Peng-reportedly died from "hypoxia due to a system fault on the submarine." The Daily Mail report alleged that Chinese PLA Navy nuclear submarine 093-417 was lost after becoming snared in "a chain and anchor obstacle used by the Chinese Navy to trap U.S. MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/AFP via Getty Images 'A Brutal System' Unconfirmed reports this week claimed that one of Beijing's submarines was lost in an underwater disaster in the Yellow Sea. If the report is eventually substantiated, those who spoke with Newsweek said, Beijing will face serious questions, though they stressed there is little immediate hope of confirmation.Ī type 094A Jin-class nuclear submarine Long March 10 of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy participates in a naval parade on April 23, 2019. as the regional military hegemon.Įxperts who spoke to Newsweek said denials from the CCP mean little, given the party's secrecy and the sensitivity surrounding its maritime operations. Regardless, the alleged loss of a Chinese submarine and its 55 sailors has prompted renewed debate as to the capabilities of Beijing's navy, which is at the heart of the Chinese Communist Party's generational plan to assert control over its neighborhood and displace the U.S. Amid fierce speculation, Chinese officials denied such an incident took place, and nations that might have information to the contrary-for example Taiwan, the U.S., the U.K. The Daily Mail, which reported the incident, cited classified British intelligence documents as the basis of its article. An unconfirmed report emerged this week of a deadly maritime disaster in the Yellow Sea, off China's coastline, in which a People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy submarine was allegedly fatally snared in an anti-submarine net intended for enemy submersibles.
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