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China launches rare submarine ballistic missile as Pacific allies strengthen defense ties before NATO summit
NATO’s strategic shift addresses China, Russian threat in new ‘NATO 3.0’
Brent Sadler, a former Navy captain and Pentagon official, highlights NATO’s strategic shift to address evolving threats. He details the potential for American troop redistribution in Europe and emphasizes a «NATO 3.0» approach that balances threats from China and Russia. Sadler stresses the need for NATO allies to significantly increase defense spending and enhance capabilities, including missile defense, to deter aggression.
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China publicly announced it launched a ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine into the Pacific Ocean Monday — a rare acknowledgment of its sea-based nuclear capabilities that came as U.S. allies deepen security ties in the Indo-Pacific and NATO leaders prepare to meet amid growing concerns over Beijing’s military ambitions.
China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy said the missile, carrying a dummy warhead, was fired from a Type 094 Jin-class ballistic missile submarine during what Beijing described as a routine annual training exercise.
The launch highlights one of the Pentagon’s biggest long-term concerns: China’s ability to field a more survivable nuclear force capable of threatening the U.S. and its allies from the sea. Unlike land-based missile launches, a ballistic missile fired from a submerged nuclear submarine demonstrates one of the most survivable elements of a country’s nuclear arsenal because the vessels are significantly harder to detect and destroy before they can launch a retaliatory strike.
The growing capability also means China could eventually threaten the U.S. homeland from a wider range of patrol areas, reducing the need for its submarines to venture into more vulnerable waters.
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A nuclear-powered Type 094A Jin-class ballistic missile submarine of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is seen during a military display in the South China Sea April 12, 2018. (Reuters/Stringer)
Chinese officials said the launch landed in a designated area of the Pacific Ocean and was conducted in accordance with international law.
«It is a routine arrangement in China’s annual military training program. It is consistent with international law and customary international practice and is not directed at any specific country or target,» Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a news conference Monday.
«The whole process was safe, standard and professional. We hope relevant countries will not read too much into it.»
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The launch came on the eve of NATO’s summit in Ankara, Turkey, where alliance leaders are expected to focus primarily on the war in Ukraine, defense spending and collective security, while also addressing the growing strategic challenge posed by China. In recent years, NATO has expanded its engagement with Indo-Pacific partners including Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, reflecting concerns that security in Europe and the Pacific is increasingly interconnected.
It was the first such test since 2024, according to Chinese state media, occurring at noon local time Monday.
New Zealand, which had just signed a defense pact with Fiji, claimed the missile landed in the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone, where testing atomic weapons is prohibited.
China said the missile carried a dummy rather than a nuclear warhead, and New Zealand did not accuse Beijing of violating the Treaty of Rarotonga, which establishes the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone and prohibits nuclear explosive devices within the region. Instead, officials criticized the launch as inconsistent with the spirit of maintaining the Pacific as a nuclear-free region.
China may be conducting low-yield nuclear tests, a State Department official says. (Tingshu Wang/File Photo/Reuters)
Australia’s foreign minister, Penny Wong, said China had informed Australia ahead of the test but added, «Australia has been clear with China that we regard this as destabilizing to the region.»
China’s rapid military buildup added to the concern, according to Wong, who described it as «lacking in the transparency and reassurance as to intent that the region expect.»
In a joint cabinet statement, Japan raised «serious concern over the intensification of China’s military activities and strongly urged China to reconsider its actions.»
The Pentagon has repeatedly warned that China is rapidly modernizing and expanding its nuclear forces, projecting that Beijing will continue increasing the size, sophistication and survivability of its arsenal through the next decade. China’s military has also expanded naval patrols beyond the first island chain while increasing military pressure on Taiwan and asserting territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, meets with representatives of military personnel stationed in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in Urumqi, the regional capital, Sept. 23, 2025. (Photo by Li Gang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
The Pentagon projects China will field more than 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030, up from an estimated stockpile in the low 600s through 2024.
Officials say Beijing is expanding all three legs of its nuclear triad — land-based missiles, strategic bombers and nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines — while improving its ability to survive a first strike and retaliate.
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At the same time, the People’s Liberation Army Navy is the world’s largest by number of battle force ships, while it has fielded advanced hypersonic weapons, expanded long-range missile forces and invested heavily in artificial intelligence, cyber capabilities and space-based systems that U.S. officials say are designed to challenge American military advantages in the Indo-Pacific.
U.S. defense officials have also warned that China continues to refine the capabilities needed for a potential conflict over Taiwan, including joint operations involving naval, air, missile and amphibious forces.
Annual military exercises around Taiwan have grown larger and more complex, reflecting Beijing’s efforts to increase military pressure while rehearsing operations that could support a blockade or invasion.
The U.S. has maintained a sea-based nuclear deterrent for decades through its fleet of Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines, which routinely conduct operational deterrent patrols and periodic test launches of Trident II D5 ballistic missiles. The Navy is now replacing those submarines with the next-generation Columbia class, which is expected to begin entering service later this decade.
Unlike China, however, the U.S. regularly publicizes scheduled Trident missile tests and has long operated a mature fleet of ballistic missile submarines that defense officials consider the most survivable leg of America’s nuclear triad.
The Pentagon and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Costa Rica gana terreno en el turismo de bienestar: naturaleza, descanso y salud transforman la forma de viajar
Viajar ya no significa necesariamente dejar atrás las rutinas saludables. Para una parte creciente de los turistas, las vacaciones también se han convertido en una oportunidad para dormir mejor, mantenerse activos, reducir el estrés, mejorar la alimentación y recuperar el contacto con la naturaleza.
Ese cambio está impulsando el denominado turismo de bienestar, un segmento que pasó de ocupar un nicho dentro de la industria turística a convertirse en un mercado valorado en cientos de miles de millones de dólares y que encuentra en Costa Rica un escenario particularmente favorable.
El Global Wellness Institute (GWI) define este tipo de turismo como los viajes asociados con la búsqueda de mantener o mejorar el bienestar personal. El concepto es más amplio que pasar algunas horas en un spa: puede incluir desde actividad física y alimentación saludable hasta yoga, meditación, aguas termales, contacto con la naturaleza y experiencias dirigidas al descanso físico y mental. Tampoco debe confundirse con el turismo médico, cuyo propósito principal es viajar para recibir un procedimiento o tratamiento de salud.
Las cifras reflejan la dimensión que ha alcanzado el fenómeno. El gasto mundial relacionado con turismo de bienestar llegó a USD 893,900 millones en 2024, un 36% por encima del nivel previo a la pandemia, mientras que se contabilizaron aproximadamente 1,239 millones de viajes relacionados con bienestar.
El GWI estima que el mercado continuará creciendo a una tasa promedio anual de 9.1% entre 2024 y 2029, hasta alcanzar aproximadamente USD 1.38 billones al final de ese periodo. Solo América Latina y el Caribe contabilizaron 60 millones de viajes de bienestar durante 2024, con un gasto promedio de USD 683 por viaje.
Costa Rica encuentra un espacio en la tendencia
Costa Rica ya comenzó a desarrollar iniciativas dirigidas específicamente a este mercado. En mayo, la Asociación Wellness Costa Rica, la Cámara de Turismo y Comercio de Arenal y el Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT) impulsaron una alianza para fortalecer experiencias vinculadas con el bienestar y la conexión con la naturaleza.
La iniciativa incluyó formación relacionada con conexión biofílica, un enfoque que busca aprovechar actividades tan sencillas como caminar por un bosque para generar experiencias relacionadas con el bienestar físico y emocional. El proyecto involucró a hoteles, operadores turísticos, guías y otros actores del sector.
El propio ICT incluye dentro de la oferta de bienestar del país prácticas como caminatas, baños de bosque, contacto directo con la tierra o la arena, alimentación saludable, hidroterapia y aguas termales, muchas de ellas asociadas a recursos naturales que Costa Rica ya utiliza como parte de su producto turístico.
La tendencia coincide, además, con una recuperación más amplia de la visitación internacional. Durante el primer semestre de 2026, Costa Rica recibió 1,733,596 visitantes internacionales, un aumento de 7% frente al mismo periodo de 2025, según datos del ICT. El 92% de esas llegadas se produjo por vía aérea.
El reconocimiento internacional del país en este nicho también ha aumentado. En los World’s Best Awards 2026 de Travel + Leisure, Costa Rica colocó dos propiedades entre los cinco mejores retiros internacionales de bienestar: Surf Synergy, en Jacó, ocupó el tercer puesto, mientras que Tabacón Thermal Resort & Spa, en La Fortuna, alcanzó el quinto lugar.
La revista también describió este año a La Fortuna como uno de los destinos costarricenses particularmente asociados con el bienestar, debido a su combinación de aguas termales, naturaleza, yoga y meditación. National Geographic, por su parte, incluyó para 2026 una experiencia ubicada en la Península de Nicoya entre su selección internacional de propuestas de bienestar.
El bienestar comienza a cambiar también la hotelería
El fenómeno no está limitado a establecimientos especializados en retiros, yoga o meditación. Los hoteles convencionales y los grandes complejos turísticos también comenzaron a introducir el bienestar como un elemento transversal de la experiencia.
Un ejemplo de esa transformación se encuentra en The Westin Reserva Conchal, an All-Inclusive Golf Resort & Spa, en Guanacaste. Más que concentrar el concepto exclusivamente en su spa, la propiedad organiza parte de su propuesta alrededor de los principios de la marca Westin de “dormir bien, comer bien y moverse bien”.
En la práctica, esto supone combinar áreas de descanso con oportunidades para mantenerse físicamente activo durante las vacaciones.
El complejo, ubicado en un terreno de aproximadamente 971 hectáreas frente al Pacífico, dispone de un WestinWORKOUT Fitness Studio, canchas deportivas y un campo de golf de 18 hoyos, par 71, diseñado por Robert Trent Jones II. A ello se suma el Heavenly Spa by Westin y actividades vinculadas con el entorno natural. Marriott también registra para el establecimiento certificaciones ambientales como ISO 14001 y la Certificación para la Sostenibilidad Turística de Costa Rica.
Su operación permite observar también cómo el concepto de bienestar se adapta a distintos perfiles de huéspedes. El complejo cuenta con un sector Westin Club, dirigido exclusivamente a adultos, pero mantiene paralelamente infraestructura para familias, habitaciones adaptadas para grupos con niños y un club infantil.
De esta forma, el bienestar deja de concebirse únicamente como una actividad aislada o exclusiva para adultos y empieza a incorporarse en vacaciones familiares, viajes de pareja e incluso estadías vinculadas con reuniones y eventos.
El caso también muestra la creciente relación entre bienestar y sostenibilidad, dos conceptos que la industria turística internacional comienza a presentar de forma cada vez más conjunta. Phocuswright señaló en 2026 que el turismo de bienestar está siendo asociado progresivamente con modelos regenerativos y sostenibles, bajo una idea que incorpora no solo el bienestar del viajero sino también el del destino que visita.
En ese terreno, Reserva Conchal reporta proyectos de tratamiento de aguas residuales, aprovechamiento de energía solar, gestión de residuos y conservación ambiental. La organización responsable del complejo señala además que el Westin ha alcanzado una condición de carbono positivo, al compensar más emisiones de las que genera en su operación.
La propiedad también apareció este año entre los complejos costarricenses incluidos por Travel + Leisure dentro de los mejores resorts de Centroamérica, con una puntuación de 91.45. En total, 13 establecimientos de Costa Rica entraron en la lista regional de 20 hoteles, elaborada a partir de las opiniones de lectores de la publicación.
Del spa a una experiencia más amplia
El cambio que atraviesa el sector ayuda a explicar por qué hablar de turismo de bienestar únicamente como sinónimo de masajes y tratamientos de spa resulta cada vez más limitado.
Dormir, alimentación, ejercicio, naturaleza, relajación y salud mental comienzan a integrarse dentro de una misma experiencia, incluso cuando el bienestar no constituye el motivo principal del viaje.
Precisamente, el Global Wellness Institute diferencia entre quienes viajan específicamente buscando una experiencia de bienestar y aquellos turistas cuyo motivo principal puede ser una playa, unas vacaciones familiares o conocer un destino, pero que desean mantener durante el viaje los hábitos saludables que tienen en su vida cotidiana.
Para Costa Rica, esa amplitud abre una oportunidad adicional. El país no parte de cero: sus playas, bosques, volcanes, aguas termales, biodiversidad y oferta de actividades al aire libre ya conforman buena parte del producto que vende internacionalmente.
La diferencia está en cómo esos recursos comienzan a combinarse con un viajero que ya no necesariamente pregunta únicamente qué puede conocer durante sus vacaciones, sino también cómo quiere sentirse cuando regrese de ellas.
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DALLAS – A House Republican representing the New York City suburbs is calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to skip the Sept. 11 memorial in downtown Manhattan.
«From my vantage point, I don’t think he should be there, and I think most New Yorkers agree that he should not be there,» Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., told Fox News and Fox News Digital. «Certainly, the 9/11 families and the first responders believe he should not be there.»
Political rancor is threatening to cast a long shadow over this year’s Sept. 11 remembrance events, marking 25 years since the tragedy that rocked the United States. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s past rhetoric and links to terror sympathizers are spurring intense backlash ahead of the city’s events memorializing the World Trade Center attacks, with Republicans and people whose lives were changed by the attacks demanding he not show his face.
MAMDANI FACES GROWING 9/11 BACKLASH AS OLD POST RESURFACES AHEAD OF GROUND ZERO CEREMONY: ‘IS THIS REAL?’
Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks to the media regarding the attempted bombing at a right-wing protest in front of Gracie Mansion on March 8, 2026, in New York City. (Ryan Murphy/Getty Images)
«I think Mayor Mamdani has proven himself to be a vile antisemite. I think he has associated with people who believe America deserved 9/11, and it’s not just Hasan Piker. If you go look at many of the people that support his administration, they agree with that rhetoric. They agree with that philosophy,» Lawler said.
An online petition led by family members of people killed on Sept. 11 — signed by over 100,000 people — has called on Mamdani to skip the memorial.
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«Mr. Mamdani has praised Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who has been linked to radical Islam, was named as an alleged co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and served as a character witness for the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ who was convicted in 1995 of plotting terror attacks against the United States,» the petition said. «Mr. Mamdani has endorsed candidates such as Aber Kawas, who described 9/11 as an attack ‘a couple of people did in the context of U.S. capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia,’ and who also expressed sympathy for Ahmed Ferhani, who pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a Manhattan synagogue.»
Mamdani and other socialist candidates’ association with far-left activist Hasan Piker has also seen intense scrutiny over Piker’s past comments that the United States «deserved» the attacks, remarks that he promptly walked back at the time but continue to haunt him and his political circle. Mamdani himself has also condemned the comment.
A firefighter walks through the rubble of the World Trade Center as an American flag hangs from a traffic light post on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. (Doug Kanter/AFP via Getty Images)
Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital that Mamdani should not attend Sept. 11 memorial events «until he can… actually call out terror groups around the world for what they want to do to this country, and that includes Hamas.»
Hamas was not responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, for which al Qaeda took credit, but Hamas has recently been front-and-center for perpetuating the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack in Israel.
«These people are really a cancer to the freedoms that we fought for, and they do not represent the American values that our founders set up and that we have had for 250 years,» Pfluger said of Mamdani and his allies.
MAMDANI DROPS MASSIVE 9/11 RECORDS TROVE AS OLD CLAIMS ABOUT GROUND ZERO COME UNDER FIRE
Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., speaks with local law enforcement about the rise of antisemitism in New York City during a campaign endorsement event at Haverstraw Elks Lodge No. 877 in Haverstraw, New York. (Kyle Mazza/CNP)
Both he and Lawler spoke with Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the 2026 GOP midterm convention in Dallas.
Mamdani’s office recently launched an online portal allowing city residents to access roughly 170,000 pages of local government records on Sept. 11, which appear to show city officials misled the public about air quality following the attacks.
Fox News Digital reached out to the New York City mayor’s office for comment.
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Fire aboard cargo ship undergoing repairs at busy Chinese port leaves 25 people dead, five more injured
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A cargo ship docked for repairs at a port on the northeastern coast of China caught fire Thursday, killing at least 25 people who were on board at the time, according to Chinese state media.
The ship was being fixed by Beihai Shipbuilding Co. in the port of Qingdao — one of the country’s major shipping hubs — when it caught fire at approximately 11:15 a.m. local time, the Xinhua news agency reported.
A total of 42 people were on the vessel at the time of the blaze, and 12 of them were safely rescued, Xinhua reported. Five others were injured and taken to the hospital, where they are in stable condition.
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a cargo ship is seen after it caught fire at a port in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, on Sept. 10, 2026. (Li Aoqiu/Xinhua via AP)
Photos released by Xinhua identified the ship as the Ocean Melody. The ship-tracking website VesselFinder lists it as sailing under the Liberian flag.
The Associated Press reported that the fire was extinguished at around 2:30 p.m., a little over three hours after it started. Videos online showed plumes of white smoke billowing from the ship.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Chinese authorities have not said what sparked the blaze while the vessel was undergoing repairs.
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, firefighters and crews gather near the cargo ship on fire on Sept. 10, 2026. (Li Aoqiu/Xinhua via AP)
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China’s President Xi Jinping called for «intensified efforts» to provide support for those who were affected by the fire, Xinhua reported, adding that Premier Li Qiang said «trapped people» needed to be rescued.
Xi also called for ensuring «preventive measures are thoroughly implemented» and «resolutely prevent major and catastrophic accidents.»
Aerial view of the illuminated Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal at night on Sept. 6, 2026, in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
Beihai Shipbuilding is a subsidiary of the state-owned China State Shipbuilding Corporation, the world’s largest shipbuilder. According to the company’s website, its primary businesses are shipbuilding and ship repair.
Qingdao, in China’s Shandong province, is one of the country’s busiest ports and a major center for shipbuilding, shipping and international trade. The port handles millions of containers each year and is home to several large shipyards.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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