China expanding ways to target continental U.S., Pentagon report says

World's first conventionally armed intercontinental missile among new discoveries

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Vehicles carrying DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missiles travel past Tiananmen Square during a military parade in Beijing in October 2019. © Reuters

KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondent

WASHINGTON -- China is expanding the ways it can hit the continental U.S., the Pentagon's annual report to Congress has revealed, including what would be the world's first conventionally armed intercontinental missile and submarine-launched weapons that can be fired from the safety of its littoral waters.

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