Economist - Asia's main powers are building up their navies. Is this the start of an arms race?

Daily Telegraph - China has secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could threaten Asian countries and challenge American power in the region.

New York Times - Several recent events, from an eagle-eyed spotting of an image on Google Earth to an overt military delivery from Russia, suggest that China is continuing its rapid expansion of a submarine fleet that would be particularly useful in a conflict with the United States over Taiwan.

New York Times - Robert Kaplan writes that the ultimate strategic effect of the Iraq war has been to hasten the arrival of the Asian Century.

UPI - China is bent on the simultaneous development of both an aircraft carrier and a strategic nuclear submarine, or SSBN. Discussions over which should take priority are over, as a higher military budget allocation has accelerated the People’s Liberation Army navy’s ambitious plan.