Indian Navy to keep watch on Chinese nuclear submarine movements

It is very hard to construct a secret base anymore. I am glad that the Chinese tried it, just to see them publicly exposed. I think it is also nice to see that India is so worried about this development. Maybe this will push them even closer to the US.

Indian Navy to keep watch on Chinese nuclear submarine movements: "Indian Navy would be keeping a close watch on the movement of Chinese nuclear submarines, which are operating out of a recently discovered underground base in the South China Sea, Chief of Naval staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta said Friday in Mumbai.

Admiral Mehta, however, felt that the Chinese nuclear submarine base has been known to India for some time and does not pose any significant threat.

'We had known about it for some time and moreover when it is a nuclear submarine, it does not matter if the base is 100 miles away or 200 miles,' he added, PTI reported here.

'Chinese are very keen to come in the Indian Ocean and there is no doubt that they wish to come there. They did not have the assets till now,' the Naval chief said.

Satellite images obtained by nuclear weapons watchdog Federation of American Scientists had led to the discovery of a Chinese naval base on the Hainan Island in south China Sea."