The construction of these silos (for housing missiles capable of carrying or actually mated with nuclear warheads?) is, on the face of it, very much in tandem with China's current vigorous drive to vastly expand its global footprints, as captured in its, say, highly ambitious OBOR project.
In this specific context, one may also like to recall that Mao's celebrated public mocking of nuclear weapons as mere "paper tigers" had in no way deterred China under Mao to quietly and determinedly go ahead with its programme to become a nuclear weapons power itself. <<There isn’t an obvious option for the US or anyone else. China has stated that it will not join the NEW START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). Fu Cong, Director-General of the Department of Arms Control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, recently said that the US and Russia have almost 20 times more nuclear warheads than China, and that “It is unrealistic to expect China to join the two countries in a negotiation aimed at nuclear arms reduction.”>> (Excerpted from: < https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/china-missile-silo-test-nuclear-weapons-7471044/ >.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZiwJvS4yG3C-HpbCXWEeTMiwYHxfW%2B5MdH%2BRd5Vfxd4fA%40mail.gmail.com.
