Tag: china nuclear threat

China Outpacing US Military at ‘Disturbing’ Rate: Gen. Milley

China is on a trajectory to achieve military superiority over the United States by midcentury, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley warned members of Congress on March 29. Testifying at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Defense’s 2024 budget requests, Milley noted that China has a national goal to…


Redeploy Tactical Nuclear Weapons to South Korea

Commentary South Korea’s possible next leader wants the United States to redeploy to its territory tactical nuclear weapons that were withdrawn in 1991. But the Biden administration almost immediately turned down his idea, practicing pre-emptive disarmament in the face of North Korea’s ongoing nuclear missile buildup that has long been assisted by China. South Korean…


Would China Nuke Japan?

An online video of China threatening to nuke Japan for declaring it would support Taiwan if the island nation was invaded by China presented the opinion of some hawkish Chinese Communist Party (CCP)  politicians, was likely supported by CCP officials, and delivered a message that the regime won’t honor its commitment to only use nuclear…


CCP Committee Reposts Video Issuing Threats to Nuke Japan

An online video threatening that China should nuke Japan was reposted by the CCP Committee of Baoji city in Shaanxi Province on its Xigua social media channel. “Our general guiding ideology is: when we liberate [occupy by force] Taiwan, if Japan dares intervene by force, even if it only sends one soldier, one plane, or one…


China’s Sprint to Nuclear Parity, or Superiority?

Commentary  In a February 2021 article for the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, United States Strategic Command  (USSTRATCOM) Commander Admiral Charles Richard wrote, “China’s nuclear weapons stockpile is expected to double (if not triple or quadruple) over the next decade.” Then during a June 2 forum of the Air Force Association Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, U.S….


The Past and Present of the Chinese Communist Party’s Bellicosity

Commentary In the past two months, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military threats to neighboring countries and maritime confrontation with the U.S. military entered a new stage, a more dangerous stage, as the Sino-U.S. Cold War and naval exercises aimed at intimidating each other continued to escalate. Is the CCP’s belligerence a temporary misjudgment, or…