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Headline is correct. China has a long way to go if they want to be as incompetent as the US.
Sinking is what subs are supposed to do though. They'd be a pretty bad submarine if they couldn't sink.
Though the reason they are doing this is to generate fascist propaganda against China, to gear up for their upcoming war with them. It is easily debunked, but that's fine with them because they'll have released a dozen stories of a similar caliber in the time it takes to point out how ridiculous this is.
Looks like the whole story might be a grift started by a satellite image company Planet Labs that's going through a major round of layoffs and desperately needs money.
https://spacenews.com/planet-lays-off-17-of-workforce/
"North Korea forces everyone to get the same haircut" tier journalism.
Where's the evidence that a nuclear submarine was there in the first place? Wuhan is not near the sea.
My faith in the human intellect is lost after news stories like this.
"Yo! See that shadow? There's an invisible high tech tub of ice cream there. Go get it!"
Accidents happen.
From January to November 2023, the Chinese shipbuilding industry's output climbed 12.3 percent year-on-year to 38.09 million deadweight tons, accounting for more than half of the world's total, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Chinese shipbuilders also commanded global orders with 134.09 million deadweight tons, or 53.4 percent of the world's market share, over the same period, a 29.4 percent year-on-year increase, according to the official statistics.
They produce half of all the ships on the planet. Then it stands to reason that half of all the shipbuilding accidents would also happen there (more or less).
Just like with the failed test launch of the Russian missile. Western media was gloating. But anyone whose brain hasn't atrophied yet would think "it's a test launch, that's why they do test launches."
Speaking of media, and going back to China, when it was first reported the headlines made it sound as if a Chinese nuclear submarine sunk. Usual implication being that it sunk out at sea. e.g. China’s Newest Nuclear Submarine Sank, Setting Back Its Military Modernization
Incidentally I was just listening to an interview with Jacques Baud, who is a Swiss intelligence analyst, and he made this exact point. He said that the west if fighting a completely different war in Ukraine from Russia. The only thing the west cares about is the narrative, and the propaganda is completely divorced from reality as a result. Meanwhile, in Russia the propaganda exists in support of reality not as an alternative for it. They might embellish things, and frame them in a way favorable to Russia, but on the whole it matches what's actually happening. And now we're hitting a point where western propaganda diverged so far it's becoming impossible to maintain as the front is visibly collapsing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWvynzLu9yI
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
