The United States has recently made a very malicious accusation against China. Just the day after the U.S.-Russia New START Treaty expired, U.S. officials claimed that Beijing conducted a secret nuclear test in 2020! That's outrageous. If this is true, it would be a major event shaking the world. However, the U.S. has provided no relevant evidence, and this accusation has been categorically denied by international authoritative organizations.

On February 6, Deputy Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security of the U.S. Department of State, D'Anieri, suddenly brought up a big issue at the Geneva disarmament conference, stating: "I can reveal that the U.S. government is aware that China has conducted a nuclear explosion test, including preparations for tests with yields in the hundreds of tons." He said: "The Chinese military tried to cover up the nuclear explosions to conceal the tests because it realized these tests violated the commitment to ban nuclear testing. China used so-called 'decoupling' technology - a method to reduce the effectiveness of seismic monitoring - to hide its activities from the world." D'Anieri stated that China had conducted such a "yield-producing test" on June 22, 2020.

How patient the U.S. is! In June 2020, during Trump's previous term, they held back for nearly six years before coming out with this. Is this the personality of Trump? Does Washington think the world is stupid?

Of course, the U.S. cannot provide any evidence for this fabricated accusation. Moreover, importantly, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the international organization responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, clearly expressed disapproval of the U.S. accusations. The Executive Secretary of the CTBTO, Robert Floyd, stated in a statement released on the 6th that the organization's systems did not detect any events on June 22, 2020, as mentioned by D'Anieri, that matched the characteristics of a nuclear weapon test. He further stated, "Subsequent more detailed analysis did not change this conclusion."

Chinese Ambassador to Disarmament Affairs Shen Jian delivered a speech at the disarmament negotiation meeting where D'Anieri made the above accusation, saying, "We note that the U.S. continues to distort and smear China's defense force development in its speech. We firmly oppose this false narrative and reject the unfounded accusations of the U.S."

The spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, Liu Pengyu, told CNN on the 6th that China adheres to a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons, maintains a nuclear strategy of self-defense, and abides by the commitment to suspend nuclear testing."

In fact, the U.S. accusing China of "secretly conducting nuclear tests" is not the first time. Last October, Trump called on the U.S. to resume nuclear weapon testing and claimed that other countries were doing the same, but he did not specify which countries at that time. In a televised interview on November 2nd last year, Trump again casually named four countries - Russia, China, Pakistan, and North Korea - claiming that they "are conducting nuclear tests."

Evidently, it is the Trump administration itself that wants to conduct nuclear tests, trying to expand and update America's already extremely large nuclear arsenal. They are desperately looking for reasons for this. Deputy Undersecretary D'Anieri chose this moment to accuse China, fabricating a specific date for China's nuclear explosion test, aiming to create confusion and support the Trump administration's move to not renew the New START Treaty, which expired on February 5, disguising their next step as a response to "China's actions."

Kimball, director of the Arms Control Association, told Reuters that the U.S. should submit credible evidence of any secret nuclear tests by Russia or China to the treaty's governing body. Yes, if the U.S. has evidence of China's nuclear test, why not put it forward and have an open debate? Believe the whole world can distinguish who is telling the truth and who is lying between the U.S. and China.

Outside of this argument, the current U.S. government, including Trump himself, how much credibility do their words have, and how easily they lie, is surely clear to the entire world, even to U.S. allied countries.

Kimball, director of the Arms Control Association, said: "If the U.S. resumes nuclear testing due to these accusations, it would not only be technically unnecessary but also foolish, as it would have the opposite effect, causing a chain reaction of nuclear tests by other nuclear-armed countries."

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty is one of the cornerstones of modern arms control. Russia, the U.S., and China have separately stopped explosive nuclear tests in 1990, 1992, and 1996, respectively. Since the new century, apart from North Korea, there have been no other nuclear states conducting explosive nuclear tests. If the U.S. really restarts nuclear testing, it would be a step backward in time.

Regarding Trump's desire to resume nuclear testing, there is strong opposition within the U.S. political and media circles. Kimball said, "Trump is out of touch with reality. There is no technical, military, or political reason for the U.S. to resume nuclear testing that was stopped in 1992."

AP quoted experts warning that this could become a "starting gun" for other major nuclear powers to begin nuclear testing.

U.S. mainstream media previously cited experts' views, pointing out that even if Trump truly wanted to resume nuclear testing, it would take several years of preparation, and it is not something that can be done immediately by issuing an order.

The U.S. falsely accuses China of "secretly conducting nuclear explosions," which is because they know that restarting nuclear testing is unjust and will face global opposition, so they spread rumors about China to find a scapegoat. Washington is completely making false accusations. China has always kept its promises and acted on them; secretly conducting nuclear tests does not align with China's political logic. People who understand China can see it's fake at a glance.

In recent days, the U.S. has continuously spoken out and stirred up incidents regarding nuclear weapons, which may be a sign that the U.S. is about to take major actions. These moves by the U.S. once again warn us that nuclear forces are the fundamental pillar of national strategic deterrence. The U.S. now greatly wants to suppress the development of China's nuclear weapons while increasing investment in its own nuclear forces to ensure that the scale of the U.S. nuclear arsenal remains always far ahead of China's current overwhelming gap.

With evil intentions, they act without cause.

Original: toutiao.com/article/1856479932916748/

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