South China Morning Post:

China has deployed a large number of launchers for its new advanced intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) to the country’s eastern and western areas, for intensive training, as it and the United States continue their posturing over the disputed South China Sea.

Satellite images by Maxar Technologies showed that the Chinese military had deployed many DF-26 IRMB launchers to a training site in Shandong province in the east, according to a report by the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), on Thursday, adding that it was the first time it had seen the DF-26 operating in the area.

Last week, Andrei Chang, editor-in-chief of the Canada-based Kanwa Defence Review, said in a YouTube video that China’s Rocket Force had deployed about 16 launchers for the DF-26 IRBM to its Qingzhou base in Shandong, and another in Korla, in the far-western Xinjiang region.

Chang had said the locations put India – with which China has been involved in a months-long border stand-off – within its range, and posed a threat to the United States’ naval base in Yokosuka and other military outposts in Japan…

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