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Sputnik — Chinese Diplomat Explains Why Beijing Should Scrap ‘No-First-Use’ of Nukes Policy

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According to the former envoy, Beijing's current policy has given China the “moral high ground” but the policy “'is not suitable […] unless China-US negotiations agree that neither side would use [nuclear weapons] first.”Mostly moot in that Russia, which is allied with China all but formally, has no such policy and it fact has the opposite policy, and Russia alone can actually destroy continental US with a single nuclear barrage of hypersonic missiles from it nuclear trident, against which the US has no defense.Sputnik InternationalChinese Diplomat Explains Why Beijing Should Scrap ‘No-First-Use’ of Nukes PolicyRelatedTASSChina castigates AUKUS alliance as pact violating nuclear non-proliferation

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According to the former envoy, Beijing's current policy has given China the “moral high ground” but the policy “'is not suitable […] unless China-US negotiations agree that neither side would use [nuclear weapons] first.”
Mostly moot in that Russia, which is allied with China all but formally, has no such policy and it fact has the opposite policy, and Russia alone can actually destroy continental US with a single nuclear barrage of hypersonic missiles from it nuclear trident, against which the US has no defense.


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