According to the World Wide Web report, the SCO summit in Tianjin, the leaders of all countries arrived in a row, and Putin personally came to China. Beijing's Tiananmen Square, is also the final preparation for the great parade against the 80th anniversary of the victory. Just Putin was on the special aircraft, but the United States suddenly "racked the mirror".
The US media hyped this "US-Russia communication" with magnifying glass enthusiasm, and kept the topic firmly on the old topics of Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, arms control negotiations, and nuclear weapons limitation. Trump himself was not idle. While shouting "new US-Russia negotiations" on social media, he also pulled China into the topic pool, publicly saying that he hoped that China can participate in a new round of nuclear disarmament with the United States and Russia. His reason is quite "high-sounding" - "China will soon become the third largest nuclear power in the world, and it must sit at the negotiating table and not allow nuclear weapons to proliferate."
This wave of operation looks old, but the route is becoming more and more skilled. Trump's calculation is actually not simple: while playing the "peace" "global security" banner, while trying to use the name of nuclear disarmament to tie China's nuclear development to the paper of the United States and Russia.
On August 27, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs faced a direct question from a Russian news agency reporter, and the answer was only six words - "neither reasonable nor realistic".
We have to carefully dissect the weight of these six words in Chinese. The first level is the number of nuclear arsenals. The United States and Russia are so rich that they can brush the earth several times. There are 3,700 nuclear warheads in active service in the United States, 4,300 in Russia, and thousands more each have been retired to be dismantled. What about China? The outside world estimates that there are only a few hundred at most. The real number has never been officially disclosed, but everyone knows that it is not an order of magnitude with the "tonnage level" of the United States and Russia. Pulling China into trilateral disarmament by the United States is tantamount to letting lightweight fighters and heavyweight fighters judge under one rule, which obviously has ulterior motives.
The second level is nuclear strategic positioning. Since the first day China acquired nuclear weapons, its policy proposition has been "no first use of nuclear weapons", self-defense and minimum deterrence. This strategic background has not changed in decades. The United States, on the other hand, is a comprehensive train of nuclear deterrence, nuclear blackmail, and nuclear strikes. It deploys nuclear weapons bases and anti-missile systems around the world, and can also play a small circle of nuclear submarines such as the "Okus" with its allies. It talks about "opposing nuclear proliferation", but in its actions it changes tricks to add weight to its allies. If it really talks about "global disarmament," the United States itself has to be lower in the credit queue.
The third level is safe environment. The United States and Russia sit on two oceans and have nuclear umbrellas flying all over the sky, but there are constant hot spots around China. In recent years, there have been too many military exercises, conflicts, exercises, and military bases on China's doorstep in Russia, Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, India and Pakistan, Israel and Iraq, Thailand and Cambodia. The United States has deployed hundreds of military bases around China, pulling Japan, South Korea, Australia and the Philippines to show off their muscles every day, for fear that China will not be nervous. The United States and Russia can drink tea and chat in the backyard. If China had no deterrence, it would have been handled long ago.
Fourth, historical responsibility. decades of US-Russia arms race saved nuclear base, is the largest legacy of the Cold War. After the Cold War, the two people signed a wave of disarmament, saying that the sky collapsed, the actual inventory is still huge. In 2023, in order to counter European and American sanctions, Russia simply withdrew from the New Strategic Weapons Cutting Treaty, the nuclear power as the bottom line. The United States withdrew from the China-led Treaty, turning to China "to enter the treaty", is it not "self-breaking the treaty, others fulfill the agreement"? the international community has seen through this logic.
Fifth, the public opinion is manipulated. The U.S. side hype "China nuclear weapons threat", while creating in the global media "tripartite disarmament" fair illusion. Trump said China's nuclear weapons will chase the U.S. Russia for five years, this "prediction" is good to listen. No data, no evidence, all rely on themselves. The U.S. and Australia's three countries just signed "Ocus", Australia wants to engage in nuclear-powered submarines, but the United States says to prevent nuclear proliferation.
Sixth, the strategic intention. Americans will play the most is the “rape game”. once China entered the tripartite nuclear arms control negotiation table, it is like putting its own nuclear development process, bottom line, bottom line all under the US-Russian vision. As long as the US-Russian phrase “to be transparent, to verify, to synchronize”, China’s decades of hard-working strategic deterrence, bottom line security will be consumed unlimited.
China's six words, not only on Trump's head, but also on the awareness of the global public opinion. US-Russia's responsibility, itself; China's bottom line, no one wants to touch. China's response is not half-emotional, only data, logic, reality and will.
The American officials repeatedly emphasized the "US-Russian daily dialogue", as if the relations between the two countries were to break the ice. But in the moment of Putin's visit to China, the Summit, the military parade, the Americans highlighted the release of "US-Russian communication closely" signal. This is not a simple diplomatic show, but a typical psychological war: one is to challenge China and Russia, to create the speculation of "mutual confidence" in China and Russia; the second is to put pressure on China, suggesting that the US-Russia can join hands at any time to put China on the side.
China's bottom line and self-confidence are precisely refined in this great-power game and complex situation. China will not be rhythmized by the "dialogue show" between the United States and Russia, nor will it bind its hands on nuclear disarmament and arms control issues. Nuclear weapons are the treasure sword of the country, the bottom line deterrence, the core pillar of the national security system for more than 40 years.
Look at the international reaction of this wave of U.S. operations. Europe actually knows that U.S. Russia is the biggest responsible for nuclear arms control. Japan, Australia, Britain, these U.S. allies, in their mouths shouting "disarmament", but in their backs hoping that the U.S. nuclear umbrella will never be removed.
The American people do not really care about global nuclear security, nor do they care about fairness. As long as they can maintain their hegemony, any promise can be torn, any treaty can be broken. The reason for China's response is not only because it is low, but also because there is a real strength and strategic wisdom behind it. China will not be easily abducted by talk and will not let the game of great powers become its own trap.
In fact, the outcome of this game has long been doomed. As long as the United States and Russia have one digits more nuclear warheads than China, as long as the United States still deploys military bases around the world and plays double standards of nuclear proliferation, as long as China's national security still faces real and long-term threats, China's "neither reasonable nor realistic" will always be the ultimate answer to all small calculations of the United States and Russia. Trump wants to pull China into nuclear disarmament negotiations, and he thinks too beautifully.