By Mike Heuer Space War
The Chinese Communist Party intends to add more nuclear arms to its growing arsenal while expanding its global influence and sovereignty, a Department of Defense report says.
The 182-page report is titled, “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2024,” and states that China’s leadership is growing more confident in flexing the communist nation’s military might in pursuit of global political gains.
“Beijing has demonstrated an increasing willingness to use military coercion and inducement to achieve these aims,” the Defense Department says.
Defense officials say the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy “seeks to reshape the international order into what it calls a ‘community of common destiny’ to support its strategy to realized ‘rejuvenation'” of China as a dominant world power.
Chinese leaders “claim their power to shape world events continues to grow, presenting ‘new strategic opportunities’ to create an environment favorable to [Chinese] interests and national rejuvenation,” the Defense Department’s report states.
Chinese leaders in 2023 said the nation’s “state defense policy remained oriented toward advancing its sovereignty, security and development interests while emphasizing a greater global role for itself,” the DOD report says.
China has more than 600 nuclear arms in its inventory and intends to raise the total to 1,000 by 2030, according the report.
The DOD says China likely will continue growing its nuclear arsenal well after 2030.
China has a policy of never being the first to use nuclear weapons, but having a large stockpile increases the likelihood of China making a military move to annex Taiwan and expand China’s territorial influence and sovereignty while improving its nuclear capabilities.
Such expanded capabilities likely would include developing missiles capable of striking Hawaii, Alaska and the continental United States, Politico reported.
The continued development of nuclear arms in China comes as the nation’s military undergoes a purge of many high-ranking military officials and executives in China’s defense industry.
China removed at least 15 military officials and defense industry executives during the last half of 2023 in what DOD officials say is an “anti-corruption” purge of the Chinese military.
Defense Department officials anticipate the purge will continue and might slow China’s expansion of its nuclear arms inventory.
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IF USA does not get its stronger than though head out of their behinds ! We are going too see RUSSIA- CHINA- N. KOREA. Take over us in a minute. And if greed between then holds off, They will be the world powers. Personally ? I for the life of me, do not know why they don’t do it now ,? Only way we could even resist is NUCULEAR, and that propbally be momentary. We do not have the means to fight any other type WAR. Not enough oil the compounds to make enough ammo or soldiers to fight. We probably could not even win a phone texting war !!!!!!!!!!!1
I am the most opened mind person I know ! So my question to all world countries ?? How much is enough times too BLOW the Earth to Kingdom COME ? Even with new faster bigger Bombs. If all the jerked of crazies all push the FIRE Button on all the old, new missiles at once ? No new or old technologies is going to stop Mase destruction and world change. The few holly special government people hid in their mountain protection bunkers. Will run out of food, have to come out . Too what ? no one too do the work they where to good too do. NO food, no clean water, just some Nuclear sludges’ to drink . My guess, big fight who is going to be top dogs, then kill each other. So comes the old ADAGE : In the end of WAR there is no Winners only stupid WEEEEN’EEEERS