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S8 Ep1102: Preview for Later Today: Chinese Missile Provocation in the Pacific. James Fanell discusses a non-routine JL-3 missile launch from a Chinese submarine. The missile traveled over 10,000 kilometers across the Pacific, passing US territories, signaling aggre

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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Preview for Later Today: Chinese Missile Provocation in the Pacific. James Fanell discusses a non-routine JL-3missile launch from a Chinese submarine. The missile traveled over 10,000 kilometers across the Pacific, passing USterritories, signaling aggressive "bastion" strategies targeting the continental United States. (1)
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This is John Batchel, conversation with a colleague Jim Fennell, United States Navy retired intelligence officer of the missile launched from a Chinese submarine,

0:39.6

a boomer, from the South China Sea, out over the Philippines and possibly over many partners of the U.S.

0:48.5

in the Pacific, Palau, the Northern Mariana's, the Marshall Islands, headed toward Fiji,

0:54.8

an act of provocation.

0:56.5

Why?

0:57.0

Why now?

0:58.4

Jim answers the question is what the path of the missile describes in the Pacific.

1:05.4

During RIMPAC, the gathering of the various elements of the Allied fleets in the Pacific,

1:12.1

meant to stem the Chinese aggression against Taiwan.

1:15.8

During a visit by the Prime Minister of Australia to Fiji itself for a mutual PAC signing,

1:24.7

here's Jim to describe the missile.

1:26.7

This was not a routine test. Whatever else it is,

1:32.3

it's not routine. More tonight. Well, John, it's a 10,000 kilometer plus missile, this JL3.

1:40.2

And those are estimates from the intelligence community. But what we know is, is that this missile, and there was just a graphic just before we came on,

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