The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it was “gravely concerned” over a report from The New York Times that said President Biden approved a new nuclear strategy that focuses on China for the first time.
The strategy, which Biden approved in March, also includes preparations for a simultaneous nuclear war with Russia, China, and North Korea, another first.
“China is gravely concerned over the report,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning. “As we have seen over the past few years, the US has called China a ‘nuclear threat’ and used it as a convenient pretext to shirk its obligation of nuclear disarmament, expand its own nuclear arsenal, and seek absolute strategic predominance.”
Current estimates put China’s arsenal at around 500 warheads, and the Pentagon claims Beijing is on track to have 1,500 by 2035. China acknowledges it’s modernizing its nuclear arsenal, but it has previously denied US claims that it’s rapidly building up its stockpile.
“The size of China’s nuclear arsenal is by no means on the same level as the US. China follows a policy of ‘no first use’ of nuclear weapons and a nuclear strategy that focuses on self-defense, and always keeps its nuclear capabilities at the minimum level required by national security. We have no intention to engage in any form of arms race with other countries,” Mao said.
She added that it’s the US that “sits on the largest and most advanced nuclear arsenal in the world.” The State Department said in July that the US has 5,748 warheads, including 2,000 that are retired and awaiting dismantlement. According to the Arms Control Association, Russia has 5,580 warheads, including 1,200 that are retired and awaiting dismantlement.
Mao called for the US to work to dismantle more of its arsenal. “China urges the US to fulfill its special and primary obligation of nuclear disarmament by further making drastic and substantive cuts to its nuclear arsenal, and stopping nuclear sharing, extended deterrence, expanding nuclear alliance, and other negative moves that undermine global and regional peace and stability,” she said.
Biden still has 5 months to start World War 3. Given what he has already accomplished, it would be a mistake to underestimate him.
Agreed
Surely you mean to say -"to respond to an unprovoked and illegal attack on a Rumanian air base."
huhh
Cripes Nancy, would you shut up?! No, I DON'T have dementia. That's just a rumor spread by Democrats.
Red flag #6 appears to be smoking gun proof the US and Israel (both Zionist and both Globalist) were the primary culprits behind the 9/11 attacks. The term Zionism should be permanently cleaved from Judaism:
https://izraulhidashi.medium.com/dear-pro-vaxxers-you-might-be-taking-the-wrong-vaccine-3e92fd0e5fd8
Stop spamming every article on the site with your link.
"China ‘Gravely Concerned’ Over Report on New US Nuclear Strategy" China! Are you kidding!? You weren't ‘Gravely Concerned’ over EVERYTHING we've been doing to you until now? You are so slow! It's time for one more of our Demon Tick Politicians to visit you and $hit more moral superiority on your face.
Might just be that now they're saying it out loud.
Agreed 💯
Like Uncle Sapien said: It is a new platform stated outright:
“Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat” ran the headline of the Times article. Behind the backs of the American people, the Biden administration has authorized a new strategy that directs “US forces to prepare for possible coordinated nuclear confrontations with Russia, China and North Korea,” according to the Times.
The complete lack of discussion of US foreign policy at the Democratic convention is even more striking considering that the platform adopted on the first day of the convention includes major changes in language related to nuclear policy compared to that adopted four years ago.
The 2020 platform condemned the Trump administration for building new nuclear weapons and pledged to expand nuclear non-proliferation treaties. It also stated:
However, all of this language is absent from the 2024 platform, which instead pledges to vastly expand the US nuclear arsenal. It states:
The platform goes on to state, in a passage which has not been edited since Biden dropped out and was replaced by Harris:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/08/22/oskc-a22.html
With its new aggressive Nuclear Strategy, the Biden administration is making the world less safe for everybody.
It should adopt a national security policy of 'no first use’ of nuclear weapons and a nuclear strategy that focuses on self-defense, not on world conquest.
Trump, W., Biden have made us less safe. W. with his withdrawing from the ABM treaty. Trump withdrawing from the JCPOA, INF, OPEN SKIES treaties. Biden with his pilfering around with the raising the ante of a possible nuclear inferno, feeding two wars that he could stop.
lol because china isnt making any nukes right?
right?
Joey Biden is still in charge of the nuclear football.
Unless a patriot refuses an order humanity is at risk of extinction.
The sick stupid Biden doesn't realize if he nukes one of those countries, it would get a response in kind from not only that nuked country, but also from the other two because they would know they'd be next in line…!
You seem utterly incapable of rational analysis of who the aggressors are and who are threatening first nuclear strikes.
The US is always the aggressor…! No one is threatening US with nukes… But US is threatening China, Russia and North Korea with nukes…! Read the article again…!
That is factually wrong. I hope it’s just wrong and not a Putin Xi parroting propaganda piece
https://chatgpt.com/share/180e3402-4fa5-4fc2-b3d9-9aff48f2913a.
Are you ignorant or dishonest?
putin says he'll nuke the west every other day now
I'd rather be bombed to death by Israel than be Hezbollah