Anton La Guardia

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Number crunch: why Britons ignore immigrant drop · 10 Jun 2026 podcast
An apex predator slips beneath the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean, just off the island of Guam.
Anton
What exactly it's after on any given day is a secret.
It could be trailing Russian ballistic missile submarines.
Or it could be watching Chinese military exercises around Taiwan.
I'm aboard the USS Annapolis, one of 49 attack submarines in the American fleet.
Together they embody America's supremacy of the underwater world, the last domain in which it has a clear military lead over China.
But this advantage is under threat.
Having built the world's largest surface navy, Xi Jinping is now transforming his country's submarine force to challenge American might.
The essence of undersea operations is stealth, above all, to hear and not to be heard.
Submarines sense their surroundings mostly by sound, as Lieutenant Commander Asif Khan, the weapons officer, explains.
On board the Annapolis, sound hygiene is constantly enforced.
Wear tennis shoes, don't slam doors, listen for changes in mechanical noise.
American submariners once joked the Chinese subs could be heard from America's west coast.
But now China is closing that gap.
To start with, it's making it easier to find American submarines with an underwater great wall of sensors, stretching from space to the seafloor.
It's also making its own boats harder to find with a new generation of quieter nuclear submarines, probably built with Russian technology.
And last, it's building submarines faster than American can manage.
In the coming years, China's attack submarines could roam across the Pacific and beyond, posing new dangers to American bases at Guam and the West Coast, and to aircraft carriers at sea.
They will be threatened not just by ballistic missiles fired from the Chinese mainland, but also by cruise missiles fired from underwater.
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