Satellite imagery reveals that China has secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could pose a threat to Asian countries and challenge American power in the region.

A substantial harbor has been built which could house a score of nuclear ballistic missile submarines and a host of aircraft carriers.

According to the Daily Telegraph of London, “one photograph shows China’s latest 094 nuclear submarine at the base just a few hundred miles from its neighbors. Other images show numerous warships moored to long jetties and a network of underground tunnels at the Sanya base on the southern tip of Hainan Island.”

Massive tunnel entrances, estimated to be 60 ft. high, have been built into hillsides around the base. Those entrances could lead to caverns capable of hiding up to 20 nuclear submarines from spy satellites.

The Pentagon has estimated that China will have an arsenal of five 094 nuclear submarines operational by 2010 with each capable of carrying 12 JL nuclear missiles.

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