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India concerned at China’s growing N-submarine fleet

	May 12, 2008

While brushing off any security implications due to the deployment of Chinese nuclear submarines at a spot near India, Chief of Navy Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta on May 5 said it was the increasing number of Chinese nuclear submarines that was more a matter of concern. “We will be concerned by the increasing number of submarines built by them and not where they are based,” Mehta said at the sidelines of a function in New Delhi. “Nuclear submarines can operate over large distances. It does not ...