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This submarine is very powerful, but why did Beijing only order one? Key point: Perhaps the single Qing-class submarine was a testbed for technologies and engineering? Or perhaps the boat was simply too expensive for Beijing to justify buying more. In 2010, China’s first—and only, so far—Qing-class submarine sailed out to sea following nearly six years of construction. Displacing 6,628 tons submerged and measuring exactly the length of a football field at one hundred yards long (ninety-two meters), it is by most accounts the largest diesel submarine ever built. Unlike the vast majority...

Reluctant teen hero Alex Rider has no time to waste: there are billionaires to take down, after all. Now streaming on Starzplay, the new ‘Alex Rider’ series based on the beloved British espionage books by Anthony Harrowitz, follows the eponymous protagonist as he gets roped into a murky sub-division of the MI6 run by Alan Blunt (Game of Thrones’ Stephen Dallane) to complete top secret missions. Starring Otto Farrant as Rider himself and GoT’s Brenock O’Conor as his eccentric best friend Tom Harris, the show sees Rider transform from your everyday British school lad into an undercove...

"When the doorbell rings three in the morning it's never good news."  The quote could be taken from Ian Fleming, but in fact it is the opening line of Stormbreaker, the first novel in Anthony Horowitz's globally successful Alex Rider series. The echo of Fleming is notable for two reasons: firstly, Alex is a teenage spy who's saved the world nearly as many times as James Bond (13 times and counting). Secondly, the stories are played totally straight: Horowitz saw himself as writing "an adult book for kids" and Alex's world is no less dangerous or brutal than Bond's. The stakes are high -- S...