{"id":2549,"date":"2022-04-22T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2022-04-22T19:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T19:38:07","slug":"china-developing-nuclear-arsenal-for-global-domination-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=2549","title":{"rendered":"China Developing Nuclear Arsenal \u2018for Global Domination\u2019: Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Article Source:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0The\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Epoch Times<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is building up its nuclear arsenal as part of a greater effort to undermine the West and create a new international order in its own image, according to one expert.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t think [China\u00a0is] building up its forces just for the deterrence factor,\u201d said Peter Pry, Director of the U.S. nuclear strategy forum at the Center for Security Policy, a Washington-based think tank.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it\u2019s building up its nuclear forces for global domination.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pry made the comments during a recent interview with EpochTV\u2019s \u201cChina Insider.\u201d He said that U.S. leadership was too slow in adapting to the evolving threat of the CCP, in no small part because of the deep financial ties many American businesses have with China.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have been very slow to realize the consequences of neglecting our nuclear forces, and only now we\u2019re waking up waking up to it,\u201d Pry said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cMany in Washington are still reluctant to accept that reality because many fortunes have been made in the West based on trade with China.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pry said that the CCP was playing along with the strategic game with the buildup and modernization of its nuclear forces. A key goal of China\u2019s nuclear program, he said, was to ensure that China could overcome Russia in the distant future after the two nations\u2019 partnership had pushed the United States out of its global leadership role.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThey don\u2019t want to be inferior to Russia or anyone in their nuclear capabilities,\u201d Pry said. \u201cThat\u2019s why they\u2019re building it up. It\u2019s not just over Taiwan. It\u2019s taking the long view. It\u2019s looking at the strategic balance of power.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Russia currently\u00a0has\u00a0the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, with around 1,500 deployed nuclear weapons and 6,257 warheads in total. The United States is next, with about 1400 deployed systems and 5,550 warheads in total. Between 1,500-and 2,000 warheads in both nations\u2019 arsenals are retired and awaiting disarmament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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China, meanwhile, is currently reported to have around 350 warheads, but a recent Pentagon report\u00a0warned\u00a0that the CCP was drastically increasing the production and modernization of its nuclear arsenal and that it would have 1,000 nuclear weapons by 2030.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pry believes that estimate to be far too low and said he expected the real number of Chinese warheads to reach around 4,000 by 2030, based on the speed with which the CCP is\u00a0constructing\u00a0new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and silos, and producing uranium.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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That push toward nuclear proliferation and eventual dominance was important, Pry said because Chinese communist leadership did not share the United States\u2019 aversion to initiating nuclear conflict.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI think the West is extremely dangerous and delusional in thinking that Russian and Chinese strategic culture is the same as ours, that they share the same view as we do about nuclear weapons being unusable, that you can\u2019t fight and win a nuclear war,\u201d Pry said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI think the problem is a profound difference in the strategic cultures of authoritarian and totalitarian states versus free societies, democracies, like the United States. Our strategic culture is one of what I would call \u2018dysfunctional optimism\u2019. You know, we always look at the best possible outcome.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The CCP formally maintains a policy of no first use, meaning that it has vowed not to initiate nuclear conflict and to never use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The regime\u2019s purported dedication to this vow has been increasingly questioned, however.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Pentagon\u2019s aforementioned report on CCP nuclear proliferation found that Chinese strategists had debated the merits of nuclear first use, and Pry noted that Chinese state media had threatened both\u00a0Australia\u00a0and\u00a0Japan\u00a0with nuclear aggression in recent months.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pry warned that the United States had taken a \u201c30 year holiday\u201d in modernizing its own nuclear arsenal, thus providing China and Russia the time needed to develop strategic capabilities capable of matching or overcoming U.S. defenses, such as the CCP\u2019s\u00a0test\u00a0of a nuclear-capable hypersonic weapon system in July of last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cAll the [U.S.] delivery systems or submarines or ICBMs or bombers date back to Ronald Reagan or before,\u201d Pry said. \u201cWe\u2019re living off the legacy of 30, 40, 50 years ago in terms of both our nuclear delivery systems and of the weapons themselves.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are in a situation where nuclear war is not just a theoretical thing anymore,\u201d Pry said. \u201cWe desperately need to get back from the edge of that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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