The United States stared at China's nuclear weapons, Trump made the top conspiracy, this time also wants to take Putin as a shielding arrow?American-style thinking is barbaric, the Chinese side no longer takes into account the American face, the six-word response makes Trump's face lightless?
China's nuclear arsenal construction has been difficult to meet the huge size of the economy and national defense needs. so in recent years, China's nuclear warfare force scale has begun to grow massively. Both the construction of nuclear forces in the northwest, or a strategic nuclear submarine after a dumpling, are proving that China's training is still "accelerating".
Faced with this move by China, Western countries will obviously not watch China gradually grow bigger. In particular, US President Trump, who has never been very prominent, has recently made an unacceptable condition to China.
It is reported that when the White House hosted the visiting South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, Trump actually mentioned China grandly, claiming that since Russia is willing to discuss nuclear arms control issues with the United States, China should also be "very willing", because the power of nuclear weapons is too great, and the United States must limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Trump stressed that although from the current situation, China is far behind the United States in the field of nuclear weapons, but China's power is very strong, the speed of pursuit is very fast, it takes only five years to catch up with the United States. so the U.S. side hopes, can reach a new type of nuclear arms control agreement composed by the three parties, and then seek to form a real "denuclearization".
In the opinion of some who are not so mature in mind, cutting nuclear weapons seems to be in the interests of all, so they are very interested in Trump’s proposal.Think that China should, like Russia, sign arms control agreements with the United States, limit possession of nuclear missiles and launchers, and add bricks to world peace.
However, from a realistic perspective, Trump's statement was hidden. China also chose a direct showdown in public. In just six words, it broke this "killing situation" carefully set up by the United States.
It is reported that on August 27th, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun responded to Trump's remarks at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Chinese side stated that the nuclear forces between China and the United States are not in the same order of magnitude at all, and the nuclear policies and strategic security environment between the two countries are completely different. It is neither reasonable nor realistic to ask China to participate in the nuclear disarmament negotiations between China, the United States and Russia.
This response can be said to have exposed Trump's carefully designed rhetoric, since Trump used China's nuclear growth rate to verify the need for China to participate in nuclear disarmament. Then, China will just put it bluntly, talk about the "nuclear weight" of China, the United States and Russia, respond with a six-character response of "not on the same level of magnitude", go straight to the core of the issue, and see which party needs nuclear disarmament.
Moreover, let's take a step back. Even if China really participates in the nuclear arms control mechanism of the United States and Russia, then there is a question directly in front of us. Whether the United States and Russia directly reduce their nuclear weapons holdings to the level of China, and then discuss nuclear weapons control, or whether China will first increase the number of nuclear weapons to the same level of the United States and Russia, and then the three parties will reduce them.
Because in terms of size, the United States has more than 4000 nuclear weapons, while Russia has more than 3000 nuclear weapons. Although China's nuclear forces are expanding rapidly, the overall number still does not exceed 4 digits. In terms of number, China's nuclear bombs are not even one-third of that of the United States and Russia. How can we talk about restrictions?
For example, if Trump waves his hand and announces to the world that the United States will reduce 2,000 nuclear weapons, asking China and Russia to follow up at the same time, and Russia still has the ability to protect itself, then China can really achieve "denuclearization", which clearly wants to abolish China's nuclear arsenal.
As for what Trump said that China's nuclear weapons can catch up with the United States within five years, it is nonsense. The United States has the world's largest nuclear arsenal. Even if all the centrifuges in China are rotating continuously and each one is smoking, it will not be able to expand to the scale of terror in the United States in the short term. Not to mention the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which not only mentions nuclear weapons, but also includes strategic bombers, an important nuclear strike delivery platform. However, China currently only has the H-6 that can be a "nuclear platform", which is still very far from the so-called strategic threshold. If you really cut it, you can't figure out why.
It should be said that proposing China to join the US-Russia nuclear disarmament mechanism is a top overt plot set by Trump. If China agrees to participate, then the United States only needs to provide some verbal rewards without paying any actual price. It can interrupt China's nuclear force expansion process in one fell swoop and gain a valuable time window to solve the general aging problem of the US military's nuclear force. If China does not choose to participate, then Trump will seize the bait and label China as not loving peace. This will be another "new card" created out of thin air.
Therefore, for Trump's chaos, China directly put the facts on the table, directly informed the United States to join disarmament is not practical, the prerequisite for cutting strategic weapons, is its own nuclear arsenal sufficient for use and outflow. but due to some very complex historical factors, China's nuclear arsenal is still very far away from this criterion, let alone not to add.
What needs to be mentioned here is that in terms of strategic weapons, this is not the first time that a US president has invited China to participate in the nuclear arms control mechanism led by the US and Russia. At the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in October 2024, Biden, who was still the US president at the time, also mentioned the so-called nuclear arms control in public, and said that the United States is ready to negotiate with China, and the Chinese side's response is also highly similar to the previous days. It believes that China's nuclear arsenal with the US and Russia is not in the same order of magnitude, and rejected Biden's invitation for nuclear disarmament. From this, we can also see that whether it is the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, the United States has always been consistent in digging holes for China.
On the other hand, the U.S. has repeatedly invited China to participate in nuclear disarmament, in fact, reflecting a military anxiety under the nuclear stance.
At this stage, China's nuclear forces have shown a trend of accelerating modernization, only this year's 93th parade, will appear more than one new type of nuclear missiles, they in range and equivalent, compared to the old "militia" missiles of the United States, have overwhelming advantages, part of which is also equipped with high-speed glider warheads, and the defense capability appears to be an index-level growth.
Combined with the gradual debut of the new type of strategic missile nuclear submarines, China's strategic nuclear force construction thinking has changed, and is beginning to shift from the past "whether or not" to "good or bad". after all, in terms of the size of China's huge economies, no sword and no sword in the hand, are basically two things.
In contrast, the United States 'nuclear forces have entered an infinite cycle.
On the one hand, the U.S. Air Force needs to spend a lot of money annually to maintain existing nuclear warheads. By 2024, there will be as much as $58.4 billion in funding for maintenance and iteration of nuclear weapons, and in the decade from 2025 to 2035, the U.S. military will spend a total of $946 billion to maintain the nuclear arsenal, which largely crushed U.S. nuclear missile and deployment platform development funding.
Among them, especially the "sentinel" intercontinental ballistic missile, which is the middle of the next generation of nuclear forces of the US military, has experienced a serious overrun in the project budget. From the original planned $96 billion, it has soared to more than $200 billion. During this period, nearly 1 billion dollars of special project funds were misappropriated because Trump needed to modify the presidential plane.
However, the "Columbia" class strategic nuclear submarine has flaws in the project progress. More than 6 years have passed since the steel plate was cut in 2019, but the construction of the first boat has not been completed due to design flaws. The project planning has been delayed until 2028, which can be said to be comparable to the Indian Tejas fighter project. "Ten years of sharpening a sword".
The next-generation nuclear strike force of the U.S. Air Force, the B21 "Attacker" bomber, although the first flight was earlier, but the manufacturing speed was extremely slow, until this year to complete the first flight of the second mass-produced aircraft, can not replace the aging U.S. bombers group.
Therefore, we can say that at this stage, the construction of the US military's nuclear forces has fallen into a darkest moment. The large number of nuclear weapons left over from the Cold War require a large amount of money every year, while the service of new equipment is very slow, resulting in significant budget overruns. Once the string that is stretched is finally broken, what awaits the United States will inevitably be large-scale nuclear disarmament. The United States 'nuclear forces have been eroded to the verge of collapse.
Under this big background, the U.S. will definitely not allow China to "stay behind", so there are trials over and over in cutting strategic nuclear weapons. But it is clear that China does not eat the U.S. set, and China is not in a hurry to talk with the U.S. about so-called nuclear weapons control until its nuclear forces reach the standards of self-defense. Because even if it does not make any sense, it will only be in vain to weaken its own "coding", China will never destroy itself.
Article part of the information source: Beijing Daily: [#China is willing to participate in trilateral nuclear arsenal reduction negotiations #]