Many important developments have happened in the last several days. Firstly, China test-fired a multi-warhead heavy ICBM, the road-mobile DF-41, with two mock warheads. This is a sign that the missile is nearing completion. The Washington Free Beacon was wrong, however, to write that the DF-41 will only be the second Chinese multi-warhead-capable ICBM. The … Continue reading Important News: Iran Threatens Nuke Inspectors, China Tests New Multi-Warhead ICBMs→
Two highly-ranking officials responsible for handling East Asian affairs left the Obama administration a few days ago. These two officials were reputed to be China threat deniers – blind about the Chinese government’s intentions towards the US and its allies, desperate to please Beijing, and determined to hide from the public the scale of the … Continue reading Two China threat deniers leave the Obama administration→
With funding from the anti-nuclear Ploughshares Fund and the New Land Foundation – whose goal is to disarm the US unilaterally – Hans M. Kristensen and Robert Norris of the FAS periodically publish a report claiming that China has only a few hundred nuclear warheads. In fact, even though they are rank amateurs who know … Continue reading Dissecting Kristensen’s and Norris’s China nuke report, one lie at a time→
How many nuclear weapons China possesses has been the subject of a fierce dispute since Professor Philip A. Karber and his students published a report in 2011 which concluded – based on China’s 3,000 mile long network of tunnels and bunkers – that China probably has thousands of warheads, possible up to 3,000. Analysts such … Continue reading How many nukes does China have? Who’s telling the truth?→
China has recently (on Dec. 13th) tested its newest ICBM, the DF-41, a missile capable of carrying up to 10 independently-targetable warheads. This was, of course, hardly the first test of this missile type. Deploying even small numbers of it will greatly increase the nuclear striking power of China’s Second Artillery Corps (SAC), the PRC’s … Continue reading China’s multi-warhead DF-41 ICBM likely to enter service next year→
Two new articles recently cross-posted by the MissileThreat website further document China’s rapid military buildup and ascent to military parity with – on track to become military superiority over – the US. These articles are available here and here. The first article briefly narrates China’s recent development and (in most cases) introduction of many high-quality … Continue reading Bad news for the US: China’s Military Is Getting Stronger Every Day→
How many nuclear weapons does China have? This is currently a subject of dispute between those who attempt to assess the Chinese arsenal’s size soberly and objectively, and those who wish to downplay and deny the Chinese military threat. Captain David A. Adams, USN, Director of Initiatives at the US Seventh Fleet command, falls into the … Continue reading How many nuclear weapons does China have? I’m quoted in Proceedings→
As the Chinese military threat grows, it is becoming more and more difficult for the enemies of a strong American defense to deny that threat – not that they’ll stop trying. But now the evidence of the gravity of the Chinese military threat is so overwhelming that it’s impossible to deny that threat and retain … Continue reading Denying the China threat is becoming more and more difficult→
Hans M. Kristensen, a lifelong Danish pacifist and advocate of the West’s unilateral disarmament since his earliest youth days, now an anti-nuclear hack at the FAS, seems to be bored these days. He has just penned another blogpost where he stubbornly denies and understates the Chinese nuclear threat, despite all the evidence that the threat … Continue reading Danish pacifist Hans Kristensen lies about China’s submarines again→
Satellite photos of the entrances to China’s secret, underground submarine bases in Sanya (Hainan Island) and Jianggezhuang (near Qingdao). Photo credit: Federation of American Scientists and Google Earth. In a recent article for the “National Interest” magazine, UChicago professor John Mearsheimer, who is best known for advocating that the US dump Israel as an ally, falsely claims that “China’s military is inferior … Continue reading Rebutting John Mearsheimer: China’s Military Is NOT Inferior To That Of The US→
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