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...Problems. China's move to deploy a missile force under the command of its secrecy-shrouded Second Artillery Corps has come much later than outside experts originally expected. The Chinese successfully fired a nuclear-tipped missile with a range of up to 700 miles from their Shuangchengtzu test site in 1966, but after that, all they hit were problems-with guidance systems, with warhead miniaturization and with the Cultural Revolution. The program picked up again as the Cultural Revolution waned and as bloody battles with Soviet border forces began to break out along the Ussuri River in 1969. Last...
Peking has earnestly courted Tanzania, which may be called upon to provide sites for Chinese range-monitoring stations and a base for a Chinese missile-recovery ship. But where are the ICBMs? The delay may be rooted in difficulties with ICBM technology, or in building ICBM launch pads at Shuangchengtzu, the high (4,000 ft.), sandy plain near the Mongolian border that remains China's main missile-test complex. Then again, the Chinese may have decided simply to stick with their relatively cheap MRBMs, which can hit cities like Vladivostok and Irkutsk, and thus would be sufficient to make...
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