Trump claims that China wants to join New Start Treaty
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:37 pm1. … The exact number of Chinese warheads is a closely guarded secret, but a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute last year estimated China has about 280 nuclear warheads, compared with a total of 6,450 deployed and non-deployed warheads for the US and 6,850 for Russia....
Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diploma ... ms-control
2. Donald Trump may be right when he claimed that "China would like to be part of a new three-way accord to limit nuclear arms". His proposal is certainly "a very good idea” for China. He may be unconsciously giving China a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to level the playing field in nuclear deterrence. How?
First and foremost, China must press the US to reduce its nuclear warheads from 6,450 to 280 before any meaningful arms control treaty can be signed.
Using an analogy, a bee may reproach a timid elephant in an argument: "You wish to be as gigantic as an extinct Tyrannosaurus rex, yet you want me to be as tiny as an ant. This is what cowardice looks like. What a disgrace! What a shame!"
Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diploma ... ms-control
2. Donald Trump may be right when he claimed that "China would like to be part of a new three-way accord to limit nuclear arms". His proposal is certainly "a very good idea” for China. He may be unconsciously giving China a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to level the playing field in nuclear deterrence. How?
First and foremost, China must press the US to reduce its nuclear warheads from 6,450 to 280 before any meaningful arms control treaty can be signed.
Using an analogy, a bee may reproach a timid elephant in an argument: "You wish to be as gigantic as an extinct Tyrannosaurus rex, yet you want me to be as tiny as an ant. This is what cowardice looks like. What a disgrace! What a shame!"