China has fitted its fleet of nuclear-powered submarines with JL-3 missiles thought to have a range of up to 6,200 miles - enough to strike the US mainland from within their own waters
"A strong Chinese army is... also a steadfast force to maintain world and regional peace and stability," he added."I think the Western powers, the NATO powers, are growing very concerned about what China is doing in this region," says Ridzwan Rahmat, principal defence analyst for the Janes intelligence agency.
Speaking to Sky News, he said that more and more Western countries are deploying naval forces to the South China Sea - Canada, Germany, France and Australia now among them - and this is raising tensions.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerSky's Asia correspondent Helen-Ann Smith shows some of the military jets on display at the Chinese military air show.
"The problem with submarine launch is that you are not able to detect the submarine," Mr Rahmat says. He continued:"When you are not able to detect that point of launch it makes it a lot harder to calculate the possible point of impact and the devastation and the kind of defensive manoeuvres that can be taken to overcome it."
Mr Rahmat says this development represents a"change of posture" in terms of Chinese naval warfare thinking.
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