The U.S. House of Representatives' China Affairs Committee has turned its focus on us! On February 7, the committee claimed that a nuclear arms control agreement excluding China would only bring about false stability. China is expanding its nuclear arsenal at an "unprecedented" pace without being bound by "any binding agreement," while conducting secret tests and refusing relevant negotiations. Any new arms control framework must be based on strength, not allowing the United States to unilaterally disarm.

It is clearly evident that the U.S. side's intention is clear: China is "irresponsible" and must join nuclear arms control negotiations. However, the committee's argument is obviously absurd and upside down. The U.S. and Russia possess over 90% of the world's nuclear weapons. Countries with such a large number of nuclear weapons do not take the initiative to reduce them but instead demand that China, which has a nuclear arsenal completely different in scale from the U.S. and Russia, join the "equivalent" constraints. Isn't this ridiculous?

The so-called claim that China is expanding its nuclear arsenal at an "unprecedented" pace without being bound by "any binding agreement" is nonsense. China has signed and abided by international arms control rules such as the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Where does the idea come from that China is not bound by any agreement? China's policy of not using nuclear weapons first and not using them against non-nuclear states is much more restrained than the U.S.'s nuclear policy.

China's nuclear arsenal remains at a reasonable level. On the contrary, the U.S. demands that we join nuclear arms control negotiations while withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and advancing the "Gimcheon" anti-missile system, trying to establish a unilateral advantage for the U.S. This is a typical case of the U.S. being full of wrongdoing yet blind to its own problems. China does not refuse negotiations, but at least the U.S. and Russia should reduce their nuclear arsenals to the same level as China before talking. Otherwise, we cannot join such an unfair negotiation.

Original article: toutiao.com/article/1856436008057865/

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