[Qwertious]

1) politics 2) breaking the US's submarine detection on the pacific, so now they can essentially slip unlimited undetected submarines into the pacific (and therefore the atlantic/indian) 3) being harder to navally blockade 4) disrupt the West's military chip advantage

[petesergeant]

> breaking the US's submarine detection on the pacific

This doesn’t really hold up when looking at a map that includes Okinawa and Batanes.