The Administration of The United States has warned of the strengthening and progress of China in military matters and has reported that by 2030, Beijing may already have a thousand nuclear warheads.
This has been detailed by the US Department of Defense in its Annual Report ‘China’s Military and Security Advances’, ordered by the US Congress and serving as “an authoritative assessment” of China’s developments in these areas.
Therefore, Washington has shown that the Government of Xi Jinping is on the way to strengthening its “ability to fight and win wars against a strong enemy, coerce taiwan and rival plaintiffs in territorial disputes and counteract third party intervention in conflicts on the periphery of China. “
These advances from Beijing are received with concern in the United States, which is observing how the expansion of the Chinese nuclear arsenal is greater than they expected and it beats previous Pentagon estimates.
Likewise, the report also points to the development of new ICBMs by the Xi government, which is now immersed in the construction of at least three missile silo fields. This point has also been made manifest by the American Federation of Scientists, although since Beijing they have not commented on the matter.
As early as last month, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, expressed concern about the Chinese demonstrations of the use of hypersonic weapons, for which he considered that a “Sputnik moment” could be “very close” – alluding to the launch of the Soviet satellite in 1957, which marked his leadership in the “space race” -, recalls ‘The Hill’.
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This report has been published at a time when the relations between Washington and Beijing go through a phase of tensions derived from the Chinese air raids on Taiwan – which they consider to be their territory – before which the United States has highlighted its commitment to the island.
At the end of October, the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing Wen, acknowledged that the threats from Beijing were increasing and that the island had the presence of trainers from the US Army.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com