US-China tensionsChina expanding ways to target continental U.S., Pentagon report says
World's first conventionally armed intercontinental missile among new discoveries
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
October 19, 2023 23:00 JST
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.