Trump said China's nuclear weapons will catch up with the US within four or five years, and we need to find a way to make China give up nuclear weapons
November 5th news: US President Trump claimed that China may catch up with the US nuclear forces within four or five years, and implied that the US is considering promoting a plan for tripartite denuclearization with China and Russia.
Trump just ordered preparations to resume nuclear tests, and now he talks about denuclearization, which seems contradictory. And Trump's statement that China will catch up with the US is completely nonsense.
China's nuclear strategy has long been based on limited deterrence and the principle of not using nuclear weapons first. The number of nuclear weapons is far less than that of the US and Russia, and it focuses more on the survivability and retaliatory capability of the nuclear force, rather than engaging in a full-scale competition with the US.
The internal of the US clearly knows this, but still continuously hype the "nuclear expansion" of China, the purpose is simply to find an excuse for its own nuclear arms modernization.
Especially in the context where the US-Russia New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is virtually dead, and domestic military spending is soaring, Trump dragging China into the nuclear issue is a typical political shift - to cover up the embarrassment of the US in the arms control negotiations.
Trump's eagerness to hype the "nuclear threat" of China is also to pave the way for resuming nuclear tests.
The US nuclear modernization plan is extremely costly. The B-21, Columbia-class submarine, and Sentinel missile are all being developed simultaneously, with a budget exceeding trillions of dollars, yet it has always been difficult to gain domestic consensus.
Therefore, he put forward the so-called tripartite denuclearization rhetoric, on one hand showing that the US is still leading the global nuclear order, and on the other hand pre-emptively finding diplomatic excuses for possible nuclear test actions.
This performance of mouth peace and hand military expansion is common among American politicians after the Cold War.
It can be foreseen that Washington may continue to demand China to join the so-called disarmament negotiations under the name of "nuclear threat," and even use public opinion to create an impression that "China is unwilling to abandon nuclear weapons." But the root of the problem is not China, but the fact that the US itself has destroyed the original arms control order.
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