Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart – Reuters Nov 3, 2021
Chinese naval-air drills near the Taiwan Strait. Click to enlarge
The Pentagon on Wednesday sharply increased its estimate of China’s projected nuclear weapons arsenal over the coming years, saying Beijing could have 700 warheads by 2027 and possibly 1,000 by 2030.
While the numbers would still be significantly smaller than the current U.S. nuclear stockpile, they represent a significant change in the U.S. projection from just last year, when the Pentagon warned the Chinese arsenal would top 400 by the end of the decade.
Washington has repeatedly called on China to join it and Russia in a new arms control treaty.
In its wide-ranging annual report to Congress on China’s military, the Pentagon reiterated concern about increasing pressure on self-ruled Taiwan, an island China sees as a breakaway province, and China’s chemical and biological programs and technological advancements.
But the report put particular emphasis on China’s growing nuclear arsenal.
“Over the next decade, the PRC aims to modernize, diversify, and expand its nuclear forces,” the report said, referring to the People’s Republic of China.
It added that China had started building at least three intercontinental ballistic missile silo fields.
“Whether China follows through with these estimates from the United States will depend in great part on the policies and actions of the United States,” Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, said.
“The potential for China to increase its arsenal to these levels underscores the urgent necessity of pragmatic bilateral or multilateral talks to reduce nuclear risks,” Kimball added.
China says its arsenal is dwarfed by those of the United States and Russia, and that it is ready for dialogue, but only if Washington reduces its nuclear stockpile to China’s level.
The United States has a stockpile of 3,750 nuclear warheads, of which 1,389 were deployed as of Sept. 1.
TAIWAN RISKS
Beijing has vowed to bring fiercely democratic Taiwan, which it considers its “sacred territory”, under its rule and has not renounced the use of force.
The Pentagon report renewed concerns about China’s increasingly muscular military and its development of options to take Taiwan, one of several scenarios the U.S. military cautioned Beijing could pursue.
But a senior U.S. defense official, who briefed reporters, declined to speculate about whether that scenario was likely or say if they saw a near or even a medium-term risk of armed conflict between Beijing and Taipei.
On the long list of potential Taiwan scenarios outlined in the briefing, the U.S. official cited the possibility that China could work on options for everything from a joint blockade campaign against Taiwan to a full-scale amphibious invasion.
It could carry out air and missile strikes or cyber attacks. China could also potentially seize offshore islands. The official declined to say which one of these contingencies was most likely or if any were likely at all.
But the Pentagon has voiced concern about China’s pursuit of capabilities that would enable such actions.
“They have a range of different things that they are wanting to be prepared to do,” the official said.
Separately, the top U.S. general said on Wednesday that China was unlikely to try to militarily seize Taiwan in the next couple of years.
“Based on my analysis of China, I don’t think that it is likely in the near future – being defined as, you know, six, 12, maybe 24 months, that kind of window,” General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said when asked if China was preparing to make a move on Taiwan in the near future.
The Pentagon report added a section on China’s biological weapons and potential dual use, but did not look at the origins of COVID-19.
There has been increased focus on China’s chemical and biological capabilities after COVID-19 was first identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.
U.S. intelligence agencies said last week that they may never be able to identify the origins of the pandemic, as they released a detailed version of their review of whether the coronavirus came from animal-to-human transmission or leaked from a lab.
China has consistently denied allegations that the virus was leaked from a specialist laboratory in Wuhan.
This is the most dangerous time. The window for an all-out USrael attack on China is closing fast.
That said, given that there seem to have been a string of bioweapon attacks on China in the last few years, it may have closed already.
“China says its arsenal is dwarfed by those of the United States and Russia, and that it is ready for dialogue, but only if Washington reduces its nuclear stockpile to China’s level.”
How unreasonable. It actually stated that once america reduced its pile to that of china, china would be perfectly willing to reduce it to none – if america and its puppets did the same. The blighters.
Because of the Bible, and Hollywood programming, and the schools etc, White America feels inferior to the Jews and lets them be in charge and give the country a disastrous foreign policy Whites will get the blame for. There somehow needs to be a separation in the perception of White Man biology and Amerikike politics.
YES PENTAGON WATCH YOURSELF !
CHINA MAYBE A BETTER SKORPION
THAN YOU !
So ?? Making Taiwan a new Danzing & pushing stupid goyim to kill each others ???
Once the Freemasons put the Whore in the Harbor, America was marked for DEATH. Those with power, and almost every Israeli PM has stated that the US is not only a puppet state but can be blown away any time, are also Jewish or Crypto Jews that. created this Corporation as it is under the Law of the Sea, not the Law of the Land making a mockery of the world’s judicial system for well over 1000 years. Roman law and Black’s Law translation of interpretation of law makes it clear the difference.
The PENTAGRAM (the US has ALWAYS BEEN A DEMONIC JUDEO-FREEMAONIC PIECE OF CRAP WITH LIARS AT THE TOP (Using the Platonic Noble Lie from the beginning) and funded by the same along with the belief of being the military arm of the Crown, City of London Corp (1189-Temple Knights of St. John which is a nice way of saying Phoenician believing idiots with the Moloch of Moloch’s (shining one Halal / Halel ie. Lucifer name change in 3rd century by Jerome Jewish Scribe – Revelations by committee with Jewish scribe Cerinthus as a major writer) with Moloch or Melech which means King, of Tyre – whose definition is that of the Devil in the OT as the most beautiful and wondrous being ever created.
The US is a lie, has always lied to it’s people which, like other nations since Plato and before of the 7 sages and even Egypt, knew that 85-90% of the people can’t read, understand what they read, reason from any point of view and at best, can only regurgitate in the liar at the top of the pyramid scheme. The Pentagram is made by Freemasons and represents exactly what is has meant through the ages as Samael – The Devil, aka (Satya Ananta aka Satan or El Mellech Neomon aka YHWH)
The US was the foundation and creator of the Bolsheviks USSR and the Cultural Revolution of Red China. The people at the top know what will and is going to happen. You don’t know as this follows the instruction of the OT and NT which are the same writers with the NT being a parallel document of lies to the Essene Gospel or Gospel of the Holy Twelve and the Essene Book of Peace which is a 180 change from the crap on the OT and NT in it’s literal form as both books are allegorical representations of something else far more insidious than 6 sigma of the population could imagine.
It has also appeared on the Cover of the Economist as well as other predictions which WILL COME TRUE. The Masonic Cathedral of St John the Divine has the pillars and those put up since 1997 have 9/11, the financial collapse, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Birth of the NWO and this can be seen in other “Cathedrals” around the world. Temples of Israel also show their rise to absolute power through the Israeli Supreme Court and the “3rd” temple which is done except for the reshaping of the top of the Dome as can be seen with many of the world’s leaders in youtube by Leeland Jones.
The time is short though but most all live will come to an end as man has engineered it’s own grave and is lying at the top about the failure of every natural system by man’s stupidity and arrogance as well as hoarding for themselves, the weather systems, geology, UV radiation, the death through heavy metals, smartdust, pathogens (fungi, bacteria and synthetic life), the fact that at 600 miles up, the level of radiation is higher than measured by the largest fusion reaction ever set off and at 1600 miles is impossible to travel through in a 1957 test by Van Allen and the Air Farce.
Enjoy the fireworks as none of the innocents ever deserved a more evil cretin species as man with very few exceptions and those who did have reverence for life (as you do unto the least of these you do unto me – creator = creation and the kingdom has always existed, is and always will be as the Kingdom of God is at hand meaning in the old greek and latin of the early catholic churches, there is no kingdom come as it is already here, eteranal with no beginning and no end and the Egyptians wrote this several thousand years BC as can be found:
Kemet Ancient Egypt
“God hath made the universe,
And He hath created all that therein is…
He is the Creator of the world,
And it was He who fashioned it with His hands
before there was any beginning …
What His heart conceived came to pass…
And when He had spoken His word came to pass,
And it shall endure forever.”
Neb Ra Techer, God Almighty
Religion is the transition of reverence into a dogma to destroy through every means possible and every institution of man is now completely failed.
The fireworks of Blue Beam and the Lightning/Thunder Rods of God should be spectacular. A must see.
@Anihc Hitler offered the same and it was refused. Look what happened, he did not have nuclear weapons. China does.