China on Thursday denounced US plans to dock nuclear-armed submarines in South Korea, saying that the plan runs counter to the goal of a “denuclearized” Korean Peninsula.
“The United States has put regional security at risk and intentionally used the issue of the peninsula as an excuse to create tension,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning, according to The South China Morning Post.
“What the US does is full of Cold War thinking, provoking bloc confrontation, undermining the nuclear non-proliferation system, damaging the strategic interests of other countries, exacerbating tensions on the Korean peninsula, undermining regional peace and stability, and running counter to the goal of the denuclearization of the peninsula,” she added.
The submarine deployments are part of a plan to increase nuclear weapons cooperation between the US and South Korea that was announced by President Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol at the White House on Thursday. While nuclear-armed submarines patrol waters all over the world, they haven’t docked in South Korea since the 1980s, and the move is a purposeful provocation toward Pyongyang and is sure to raise tensions.
The US removed nuclear weapons it had stationed in South Korea in 1991. President Biden said the US doesn’t plan to permanently deploy nuclear weapons in South Korea under the new deal, but “visits” by nuclear-armed submarines and other US strategic assets could become frequent.
“We’re not going to be stationing nuclear weapons on the peninsula,” Biden said in a joint press conference with Yoon. “But we will have visits to ports, visits of nuclear submarines and things like that.”
Bye-Done “Visits”?
China is not coming out to fight. China says go home America, you’re drunk.
What any adult would do under the circumstances.
“The US removed nuclear weapons it had stationed in South Korea in 1991.” An interesting year, 1991. Soviet Union dissolved to become Russia again. The U.S. agreed to not allow NATO to move “one inch East”. Gorbachev wished to have Russia be a member of the Western Alliance and was turned down. A most interesting year.
“and things like that”
If we ever needed proof that our president is in complete control of his faculties when it comes to using technically and diplomatically accurate terminology when announcing matters of international importance, well, we have our proof, ladies and gentlemen.
Hans Christian Andersen’s least popular work, “The Emperor Does Not Have Dementia”, in which a bunch of rich people insist that noticing the president talking to ferns means you’re an actual Nazi.
Wonder what the Biden administration’s reaction would be if, in response, China announced that it would be docking nuclear armed vessels in Cuba and Venezuela. I can already hear the wailing, chest thumping histrionics and tantrum.
No need, China can order a bunch of Mylar balloons for $20 each. How much does it cost us to shoot each down? $400 thousand? $20 for $400,000? That’s not a bad deal.
“The United States has put regional security at risk and intentionally used the issue of the peninsula as an excuse to create tension,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning, according to The South China Morning Post.
“What the US does is full of Cold War thinking, provoking bloc confrontation, undermining the nuclear non-proliferation system, damaging the strategic interests of other countries, exacerbating tensions on the Korean peninsula, undermining regional peace and stability, and running counter to the goal of the denuclearization of the peninsula,” she added.
In a nutshell. And that’s just her part of the world. We’re worldwide!!
Ning would be the biggest liar ever, if it weren’t for the fact that every word he said was the absolute truth.
Mao Ning is a smart well spoken woman who I’m guessing talks these responses over with foreign ministry staff. I have read a little of Chinese news every day for years and notice a gradual turn toward more strident. President Xi is even expressing a future when China can project power. He looks vety strong in his well-tailored and very expensive looking military camouflage jacket.
It’s almost like the US is trying to prove Jesus wrong when he says “he who lives by the sword will die by the sword”. It’s either that or were so afraid we have it coming because of what we did to Hiroshema and Nagasaki that we are willing to gamble with the whole future of civilization rather then face the facts. It’s us man we are the problem.
South Korea should become a superpower so it will be just as capable as the US is of defending its borders & it would close all US Bases there.