Article: China will get Russian ship this week.

Russia will deliver the first of two cruise missile destroyers to China this week, giving Beijing a new capability to sink U.S. warships, Pentagon officials said yesterday.

A Sovremenny-class guided missile destroyer will be delivered to the Chinese navy at a shipyard in St. Petersburg on Saturday - Christmas Day - and will depart for its home port in China two days later, Russia's official Itar-Tass news agency announced on Monday.

A christening ceremony involving the hoisting of a Chinese flag on the ship will take place at the shipyard ceremony Saturday and the ships "will become Chinese property," the news agency said.

The Pentagon's ...

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