China doing ‘everything it can’ to build up nuclear arsenal

There are growing concerns over China’s accelerated expansion of missile silos that could be used to house nuclear-tipped missiles capable of reaching the US.

ASPI’s Michael Shoebridge said Beijing has made an “art” of being opaque about its nuclear weapons capabilities.

“China is already doing everything it can to build up their nuclear weapons numbers and variants,” Mr Shoebridge, who is the Director of ASPI’s Defence, Strategy and National Security Program, said.

China’s nuclear warhead arsenal is estimated to be in the low hundreds but is expected to grow to 1000 warheads by the end of the decade.

[irwan]

It's necessary for China to increase the numbers of nuclear warhead exceeding to tame these barbarians

[maaaaaaaaaaaaaaab]

Why can’t China build their nuclear arsenal? Doesn’t USA build their, or England or France? What gives one country the permission and another the prohibition to build nuclear weapons arsenal

[AverageGuy]

China has 400 nuclear warheads
US has 6000 nuclear warheads
Australia is very concerned... 😲😲

[indojaya]

Don't like to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries' and don't like to oppress weak countries if one day they are strong u Will immediately be afraid

[davu]

From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped more than two million tons of ordnance on Laos during 580, 000 bombing missions—equal to a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24-hours a day, for 9 years – making Laos the most heavily bombed country per capita in history. The bombings were part of the U.S. Secret War in Laos to support the Royal Lao Government against the Pathet Lao and to interdict traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The bombings destroyed many villages and displaced hundreds of thousands of Lao civilians during the nine-year period.

Five years ago, the US forces, using the fake intelligence of a staged video by “White Helmets” as evidence, conducted the so-called “most precise air strikes in history” in Syria, killing more than 1, 600 innocent civilians. In recent years, the international community has been calling for investigations into the killing of civilians in the US’ overseas military operations. On Syria alone, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic pointed out several times in its reports in September 2019 and February 2021 that the US failed to distinguish military targets from civilians in its air strikes in Syria, which gravely violates international humanitarian law and may constitute war crimes.
However, the US government has been turning a deaf ear to all this. 

According to reports, over the past nearly two decades, the US conducted over 90, 000 air strikes in countries including Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, which may have killed up to 48, 000 civilians. But the US military time and again covered up the facts and refused to apologize, admit its crimes or hold the perpetrators accountable. It did everything possible to evade its responsibilities. On the drone strike of civilians in Afghanistan, a Pentagon spokesperson said openly in December 2021 that no US soldiers will face disciplinary action over it.

The US media also disclosed at the end of last year that from 2014 to 2019, the US military turned its guns on farmers in the middle of harvest, children playing in the streets, families fleeing the fighting and villagers taking shelter in buildings. These disastrous crimes were deliberately concealed and whitewashed. US media revealed last year that according to the US military’s own confidential assessments of more than 1, 300 reports of civilian casualties, civilian casualties in US air strikes have been “significantly undercounted”.
Larry Lewis, a Director at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) of the US said that on average at least one incident of civilian harm has happened every week since 9/11. There has been an overall pattern of negligence with regard to the US government on the issue of civilian harm.

The US has also obstructed the International Criminal Court’s investigations into its war crimes in Afghanistan.  Every human life, regardless of nationality, race, religion or values, is equal and precious. The US should earnestly respond to the strong call of the international community, conduct a credible, independent and impartial investigation into civilian casualties caused by US air strikes, and hold the people concerned accountable.

The truth of the matter is that politicians in the West and the US including Australia (Australia which is psychologically totally confused and suffering from an identity crisis as it thinks it is "west" when the reality is that it is geographically part of Asia!!!), are still stuck in their mental capacity and attitude in the glory days of "empire" 5-6 centuries ago. They may have learned to wear Gucci suits nowadays but nothing else seem to have evolved in their psyche and consciousness from their barbarian days.
Instead of recognising their sordid past and history, they celebrate their delusions like "Thanksgiving Day" which the Native American Indians rightly and clearly remember and commemorate as their "Day of Mourning" being the beginning of the murdering, genociding, plundering, stealing, raping and ultimately, OCCUPATION, of their land uninvited, without any due compensation even till today. But these thieves and robbers take a lot of pride in the stories they tell themselves and sell to the world how great their "founding" was!!! Same stories with the "Empire" where the sun never sets. Australia with the Aborigines. New Zealand with their Maoris. The African continent with all those goes on and on. This is the 21st Century, for chrissakes! Grow up and come out of that sick and primitive mentality of never ending desire to dominate, control and subjugate.

The zillions of dollars spent on wars and "defence" and the other zillions being hoarded by the 1% is more than sufficient to provide every human being on the planet a very decent and never anything wanting life on this planet with the healthiest and cleanest environment. And we pride ourselves as being the only creature on earth with the intelligence, consciousness and capacity of free will and choice. And these sick politicians choose never ending squabbles, tensions and wars!!! Go figure.

[truefactjack]

What did you expect they already said out Aloud their preparing for war...

[lillyskyla]

People screaming from balcony’s hungry and their pets being rounded up and killed in mega Nets I saw tonight. I am so shocked and saddened tonight 😭

[aryan]

All this but lets still import more goods from China, so it seems they are not as bad as your saying. Why all these distractions?

[jamestinning]

"Although not verified", low bar journalism Rita.

[strategicviewpoint]

Ok, short nuclear warfare lesson- nuclear missiles are rated by a number of things- Megatonnage, MIRVs (multiple warhead delivery systems) and CEP (circular error probabilities). Ground based silos are the least favorable since you have to launch the missiles before an incoming first strike, so they are more conducive to a "use them before you lose them" strategy, bomber based launch systems are more favorable unless caught on the ground. Submarine based missile launch systems are the most secure launch system since it takes an intensive ASW (Anti Submarine Warfare) to destroy a submarine which remain underwater for long periods of time. Most likely the Chinese have dummy silos with the real ones mixed in, partly to cause Western intelligence to overestimate nuclear missile numbers but also to cause the US to waste nuclear missiles on dummy silos if a nuclear war breaks out.

[benderover]

This shows the world how neutral this China is, my ass!

[hkfoo]

Yes China should be at par with US
in nukes

[rdDog]

Well.. things are taking a turn for the worse..

[ElphaB]

They are displaying plastic drums to scare the people....

[goosecouple]

Meanwhile US military is converting their soldiers into patriots of the rainbow flag.

[joeroganpodfantasy]

The last comparison with USSR was very telling.

[maishcrow]

CCP last military contact, when the Chinese double crossed NVA and Vietcong where giving a military hiding and retreated after losing badly. Do you think things have changed.

[lovechineseforever]

AUSTRALIA SHOULD DO HER PART AND NOT SELL THEM ANY IRON ORE. DO IT NOW.

[curtisburns]

Stop having ASPI lobbyists on your show. They have zero credibility.

[iheartcomps]

Light em up! Light em up light em up light em up!