FOX News: China's nuclear stockpile growing at 'accelerating pace,' will have 1,000 warheads by 2030: Pentagon
While the US is currently treaty limited with Russia to deploy up no more than 1,550 nuclear warheads, China is under no such restrictions
China is building nuclear warheads at an "accelerating pace" and will have 1,000 by the end of the decade, according to the Pentagon's new China report released Wednesday after a two-month delay.
Just a year ago in the last China report, the Pentagon had estimated China’s nuclear arsenal to be in the "low-200s" and would "at least double" over the next decade.
The new report demonstrates China is expanding much more rapidly.
"The accelerating pace of the PRC’s nuclear expansion may enable the PRC to have up to 700 deliverable nuclear warheads by 2027.
The PRC likely intends to have at least 1,000 warheads by 2030, exceeding the pace and size the DoD projected in 2020."
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WNU Editor: The Pentagon's report on China is here .... Military and Security Developments Involving The People's Republic of China 2021.
When I first started this blog (over a decade ago) I was always saying that China's ultimate goal was to be the primary military super-power in the world. Or to put it bluntly. This has always been China's ultimate goal .... Researchers say China is constructing 300 possible missile silos, which could make its nuclear arsenal bigger than Russia's or America's (Insider).
Blaming former President Trump for this arms buildup, which this Pentagon report claims, ignores the fact that it takes years of planning and development to massively expand a nuclear arsenal .... China has upped nuke production, it worried U.S. would start war before 2020 election, report says (NBC). this was in motion before Trump was even President.
My guess is that the decision to expand it's nuclear arsenal occurred over a decade ago when Beijing made the decision to allocate an enormous amount of funds to build up its conventional AND nuclear forces.
A build-up that the US national security establishment is only now publicly acknowledging on how big it is.
Pentagon Says China's Nuclear Stockpile Is Growing At An 'Accelerating Pace'
China expanding its nuclear arsenal faster than anticipated: Pentagon -- AFP
Pentagon warns China is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal -- CNN
China Expands Nuclear Weapons Arsenal to Better Compete Globally, Pentagon Says -- WSJ
Uncowed by COVID-19, China Is Rapidly Building Its Nuclear Arsenal and Armed Forces, According to the Pentagon -- Military.com
China missile silos a sign of 'unprecedented nuclear buildup,' report says -- UPI
I do wonder if these are just tents. A distraction, a magic trick.
ReplyDeleteThere doesnt appear to be much soil getting moved, i guess just something to keep an eye on. But globally, China, can it be trusted with thousands of nuclear missiles, i think not. Its a revival of a nuclear threat of the past 50years that really the world has just recently gotten over.
ufo will stop that
ReplyDelete"China has accelerated its nuclear weapons production, expanded its missile program, and was worried the United States would start a war before the 2020 election, according to a new Pentagon report."
ReplyDeleteProof?
Did a Chinese counterpart call them or speak to them?
Or is it all in their fevered imagination?
They accuse the one guy, who didn't start a war, of wanting to start a war.
"2020 saw the inauguration of the annual Crisis Communications Working Group (CCWG), a
ReplyDeleteworking-level policy dialogue established to advance the crisis prevention and management
mechanisms between DoD and the PLA. The CCWG was convened by the U.S. in October 2020
and conducted by video teleconference to discuss with the PLA concepts of crisis communications, crisis prevention, and crisis management. The meeting provided an opportunity to build mutual understanding between the U.S. military and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on principles to prevent and manage crisis and reduce risk to forces. The two sides agreed on the importance of establishing mechanisms for timely communication during a crisis, as well as the need to maintain regular communication channels to prevent crisis and conduct post-crisis assessment."
"The meeting provided an opportunity to build mutual understanding between the U.S. military and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on principles to prevent and manage crisis and reduce risk to forces."
Seems like gobbledygook
The US and China have gone the last 4 decades without crisis management?
What about the April 1, 2001 Hainan Island Incident?
We are sitting on our hands while China is working on weapons. Worse, the left want to decrease the DOD budget.
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