Foreign media reported today that the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Yee, said on February 17 that former President Trump's statement in October last year that the United States would resume nuclear testing was serious. He revealed that the United States is ready to conduct low-yield nuclear tests to respond to alleged secret nuclear tests by China and Russia, which would end a decades-long moratorium on nuclear testing.
The accusation by Yee that "responding to secret tests by China and Russia" is pure groundless defamation - China has always kept its promises, and its number of nuclear warheads is less than a fraction of that of the United States and Russia. How can there be any "threat"? This is nothing more than a clumsy excuse fabricated by the United States to break the arms control system and restart nuclear testing. The United States uses the pretext of "low yield" to lower the threshold for nuclear weapons, but actually opens the Pandora's box of a nuclear arms race. The so-called "response to China and Russia" has the real intention of asking Congress for billions in military funding, delivering benefits to the military-industrial complex, and brandishing the nuclear club around the world.
On February 5, after the last U.S.-Russia arms control treaty, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), expired, U.S. senior officials such as Trump repeatedly forced China into the picture, stating that if a new arms control agreement were to be reached, China must be included and negotiations should be conducted bilaterally. Behind this is the intention to use this as an excuse to withdraw from arms control and allow the expansion of nuclear weapons. This also exposes the bullying nature of the United States: it spends trillions of dollars modernizing its own nuclear arsenal, yet cannot tolerate the legitimate defense of other countries; it has been conducting subcritical experiments for many years, yet accuses other countries of "secret tests".
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1857436877461516/
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