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May 09, 2025
(See article for further description of the proposed U.S. Golden Dome system and photo credits. ~llaw)
The U.S. Golden Dome system would undermine the balance between strategic offensive arms and strategic defensive arms, the statement said, “one of the central and fundamental principles of maintaining global strategic stability”.
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In My Opinion:
Have China and Russia decided to merge their nuclear war plans and procedures against the United States and Trump? They seem to believe the U.S. in increasing the risk of nuclear war. Although they do not mention Trump (in the lead article) but do say they “must stand up to “Power Politics” and named three reasons for joining together against the U.S.: the development of global missile defenses like Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome”, the militarization of space, and the sharing of nuclear technology with allies.
What I take this to mean is that they are collaborating defensively against an untrustworthy American government, although there is a hint that the “idea” of the “Golden Dome”, which is likely to never be built due to both time and money and an ongoing international expensive and intensely political defense in lieu of broken international paper pacts and agreements, which is currently what the nuclear armed nations refer to as “deterrence” that is, for now at least, the only mutual way these nations have to avoid nuclear war.
In other words the nuclear armed world has no idea how to proceed safely with what has been referred to as “Now I am Death, destroyer of worlds.” ~llaw
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China and Russia accuse US of raising risk of nuclear war and vow to respond to threats jointly
Statement decries US initiatives including expansion of security alliances, development of ‘Golden Dome’ and sharing of nuclear technology
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Published: 6:28am, 9 May 2025Updated: 6:40am, 9 May 2025
China and Russia accused the United States on Thursday of increasing the risk of a nuclear war and vowed to jointly address threats, highlighting the escalation of Beijing and Moscow’s strategic confrontation with Washington.
After a meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin held with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow, the two nations issued a joint statement on global strategic stability.
In it, they condemned several US policies, including the expansion of its security alliances, the forward deployment of strategic weapons, the development of global missile defences like the “Golden Dome”, the militarisation of space, and the sharing of nuclear technology with allies.
Such US policies sought “overwhelming military supremacy” and “absolute strategic security”, the statement warned, and were “undermining global strategic stability, spurring an arms race and increasing conflict potential both among nuclear-weapon states and in the international arena as a whole”.
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Xi Jinping says China, Russia have ‘special responsibility’ to stand up to power politics
Xi Jinping says China, Russia have ‘special responsibility’ to stand up to power politics
The statement added: “The two sides note with concern that against the backdrop of aggravation in the relations between nuclear-weapon states, which in some cases has escalated to the threat of a direct military clash, a critical mass of problems and challenges has accumulated in the strategic sphere, and the risk of nuclear conflict has increased.”
The statement was among more than 20 bilateral documents signed to further the nations’ “no-limits” partnership while Xi attended Russia’s celebration of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Germany in World War II.
Reflecting China and Russia’s strategic security view against the US-led West, the statement denounced the expansion of military alliances and coalitions by “some nuclear-weapon states” as one of “the most pressing strategic risks to be urgently addressed”.
Referring to the deployment in non-nuclear countries of missiles that target nuclear states, “the two sides strongly condemn such provocative activities that undermine regional stability and global security”, the statement said.
China and Russia, along with the US, Britain and France, are the five nuclear states that signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1967 and are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Russia has repeatedly objected to the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after the end of the Cold War, contending the alliance threatened its security and citing this as a reason for its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
China has also criticised the US campaign to build “small circles” of alliances in the Indo-Pacific and opposed the deployment of US strategic missile systems to its neighbours, like the – such as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic system in South Korea and the Typhon missile system in the Philippines.
Further Reading
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China’s Xi Jinping launches Russia trip with thanks for Moscow over Taiwan
The statement singled out for criticism the recently announced “Golden Dome for America” global missile defence system that also includes interception weapons in space.
The system would undermine the balance between strategic offensive arms and strategic defensive arms, the statement said, “one of the central and fundamental principles of maintaining global strategic stability”.
It would also turn space into a battlefield, the statement said.
“The two sides oppose the attempts of individual countries to use outer space for armed confrontation and will counter security policies and activities aimed at achieving military superiority, as well as at officially defining and using outer space as a ‘warfighting domain’,” the statement said.
The US established its Space Force in 2019 as a branch of its military and defined space as a warfighting domain in 2020.
The statement also condemned the “use of commercial space systems to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states and armed conflicts involving third countries”, a likely reference to the Starlink satellite internet network, owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which has played a significant communications role in the Ukraine war.
The US “nuclear sharing” and “extended nuclear deterrence” strategies that integrate non-nuclear allies into its nuclear operations were particularly risky, the statement warned, saying such tactics not only increase potential conflicts but also jeopardise international nuclear arms control.
The statement cited the Aukus partnership involving the US, Britain and Australia, that aims to transfer nuclear-powered submarines to Australia as “provok[ing] an arms race in the region”.
Citing the importance of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as well as the international conventions prohibiting biological and chemical weapons, the joint statement also accused the US and its allies of conducting “military biological activities” both domestically and abroad and urged Japan to eliminate chemical weapon it left in China during World War II.
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