Two: Renewal of US Nuclear Inventory Gives CCP Breathing Room The commentary also stated that if the current trend remains the same, the CCP is expected to increase, at least double, its nuclear inventory in the next ten years. Secretary of State Pompeo published a commentary with then President’s Special Envoy for Arms Control titled “Why China’s Nuclear Build-Up Should Worry the West,” claiming that the CCP has long covered up its development of nuclear weapons and that its nuclear bullying has become radical to an extent that threatens its neighboring countries. On the eve of his resignation this January, then U.S. Given that the pressure from the United States has now fallen on China, the CCP is rebuilding the nuclear balance. The nuclear “balance of terror” was established upon the “mutual assured destruction” between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. “We must be prepared for a high-intensity showdown between China and the United States,” said Hu. The exhibition displayed cultural relics, pictures, and documents featuring important historical events in China since 1840, when the nation was defeated in the Opium War. In May and July 2020 Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Chinese state-run media Global Times, posted on Weibo that the CCP needs to expand the number of nuclear warheads to 1,000, including at least 100 Dongfeng-41 strategic missiles (which can cover the United States), in a relatively short period of time.Ī security guard stands beside a screen showing video about China’s atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb research during “Road Of Revival” Exhibition at the Military Museum on Octoin Beijing, China. Department of State said at a press conference on July 1 that the CCP’s expansion of nuclear weapons is becoming more and more difficult to hide and that this action runs counter to decades of its nuclear strategy based on minimum deterrence. The Washington Post and Federation of American Scientists, an American think tank, successively disclosed on June 30 and July 26 that the CCP was building hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missile silos in the desert areas of Gansu Province and near Hami City in eastern Xinjiang. Frankly, that word, breathtaking, may not be enough.”
12, Richard delivered a speech at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium, saying that the CCP’s “explosive growth and modernization of its nuclear and conventional forces can only be what I describe as breathtaking. Richard, Commander of United States Strategic Command, said in a congressional hearing that the CCP is a major strategic threat to the United States because of the rapid modernization of its military strength and the unprecedented expansion of its nuclear capabilities.įour months later, on Aug.
One of them, Long March 18, is allegedly capable of being equipped with the Julang-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile that has a range of more than 10,000 kilometers.īeing able to cover targets in the United States without a deployment outside of the first chain of major archipelagos from the East Asian continental mainland coast, the Long March 18 has been interpreted by the military experts of the CCP as a qualitative leap in sea-based nuclear power. On April 23, 2021, three large battleships of different types were enlisted in the CCP’s navy. One: CCP Intends to Reshape Structure of Global Nuclear Forces There are three important points regarding this issue. The nuclear expansion of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has attracted unprecedented attention from the United States and the international community since 2021.
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