BEIJING – Chief editor of government-run media
China ;
Global Times, says race
nuclear weapons matching the numbers is stupid work. According to him, all that is required is the ability to obliterate
United States of America (US) only in once.
“China will not engage in a nuclear arms race with the US. We thought it was stupid. I know that the US can destroy China 10 times, but we will make sure that we have full capabilities to destroy the US once,” the editor-in-chief wrote. Global Times, Hu Xijin, on Twitter on Wednesday (10/27/2021).
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Hu commented on an opinion piece by Laura Grego, a fellow at the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy, who warned that the development of US missile defense systems had led Russia, China and others to develop more dangerous weapons capable of defeating them.
“China’s new missile shield against the possibility that the United States may someday believe its technical advances allow it to strike China first while remaining immune to retaliatory nuclear strikes,” Grego wrote, referring to recent reports of Beijing’s hypersonic missile tests. although China denies it.
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Hu last week urged the US to abandon the crazy idea that its weapons could attack China and Russia, but that they could not.
Hu has been in charge of Global Times since this English daily re-launched in 2009, under the auspices of People’s Daily, the main newspaper of the Communist Party of China.
Wednesday’s tweet was a shorter and sharper version of an argument he made ten days earlier, which said that China’s development of nuclear deterrence aims to ensure that the US abandons the idea of nuclear blackmail against China, or uses nuclear force to fill gaps due to conventional US forces. cannot destroy China.
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Reports earlier this month that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had successfully tested a nuclear-capable intercontinental hypersonic missile had raised concerns in Washington, where US officials said they were surprised.
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