The Trump administration is the source of any potential disaster · 2020-08-03 · Source: NO.32 AUGUST 6, 2020
At a webinar on July 25, No to the New Cold War, speakers from China,the U.S., the UK, India, Russia, Canada, Venezuela and Brazil discussed how to counter the new U.S. hostility toward China. The following is an edited excerpt of what Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, said on the issue:
The next few months before the U.S. presidential election on November 3 will be a high-risk period for Sino-U.S. relations as Donald Trump will do anything to win his reelection. The possibility of the Trump administration resorting to military conflict against China can t be ruled out.
An August 1988 letter from U.S. President Ronald Reagan to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita mentions concerns raised with Deng Xiaoping about China s missile exports. (Takayuki Kakuno)
Declassified diplomatic documents from the late 1980s released Dec. 23 by the Foreign Ministry offer a rare glimpse into concerns raised by U.S. President Ronald Reagan about China’s missile exports to the Middle East.
The archive mainly deals with the period around the end of the Cold War.
Correspondence between Reagan and Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita also reveals that the U.S. president not only raised his concerns about the missile exports directly with Chinese supreme leader Deng Xiaoping but also asked Takeshita to bring up the issue when he visited China to meet with Chinese leaders.
Biden should continue building intermediate-range missiles Luke Griffith December 23, 2020 Developing and deploying intermediate-range missiles would allow the Biden administration to propose an exchange of apples for apples in nuclear arms control negotiations, according to this commentary. (Patrick Semansky/AP) After withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in August 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump envisioned a comprehensive agreement that controlled all Russian and Chinese nuclear systems, including about 100 Russian and 2,200 Chinese ground-launched, intermediate-range missiles. With the Xi government unwilling to join arms control negotiations, the Trump administration expressed interest in a bilateral deal with Russia. To augment its bargaining position and military capabilities, it secured $181 million to develop intermediate-range conventional missiles.
How Biden can reenergize strategic arms control December 22, 2020 An intercontinental ballistic missile lifts off from a truck-mounted launcher somewhere in Russia. The Russian military said the Avangard hypersonic weapon has entered combat duty. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) The incoming Biden administration will need to quickly extend the New START nuclear pact before it expires on Feb. 5. Russia has previously offered a five-year extension, consistent with the treaty’s terms. That extension will, however, be only the first step in a long process to return nuclear arms control from the brink. The Trump administration tentatively agreed with Moscow to a one-year extension accompanied by a freeze on all nuclear warheads. But that effort faltered on verification issues. The Biden team has indicated support for an unconditional extension and appears to favor a longer time period. Given the complexities, providing negotiators the full five years would avoid