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| US Warns about ‘Rapid Growth’ in China’s Nuclear Arsenal |
| 2021-08-09 |
| [BenarNews] U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed grave concern Friday about what he described as China’s growing nuclear arsenal and told an annual regional security conference that the Asian superpower should also cease "provocative behavior" in the South China Sea. America’s top diplomat raised these concerns during his first appearance in that role before the ASEAN Regional Forum, a virtual meeting that drew his counterparts from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and 10 of the bloc’s dialogue partners, including China, Russia, Japan and other world powers. "The Secretary ... noted deep concern with the rapid growth of the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China’s] nuclear arsenal which highlights how Beijing has sharply deviated from its decades-old nuclear strategy based on minimum deterrence," the State Department said in a statement about Blinken’s participation at the meeting. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 "expressed grave concern" Well, THAT will show them! |
| Posted by: Tom 2021-08-09 10:11 |
| #1 (reads article and laughs in Mutual Assured Destruction) Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-08-09 05:58 |