PART II: Master Projects of China - Nuclear Arms build-up

After a couple of years, the Republic of China began to climb up to world power and extended its empire and its global influence on countries located all over the world. To develop opportunities to be a sovereign country, the construction of nuclear weapons and the exponential enlargement of the nuclear arsenal plays an important role for China. After the “Washington Post” published an article that shows the construction process of around 120 new rocket silos, the world looks at China. The other countries, owning nuclear weapons, especially the USA, are concerned about this process.

The background - how China has developed into a country with nuclear weapons

Some years ago China was not a world power and a country with several nuclear weapons that could not even come close to threatening the old nuclear-armed countries meaning the USA and Russia. For a very long time, the USA and Russia were the two leading countries in nearly every sector including the number of nuclear weapons which is now in the area of thousands. After the end of the exhausting cold war between the USA and Russia, both countries were fatigued by investing tons of money in form of taxes into nuclear weapons that aren’t adding any value to the country's prosperity, but just creating the risk that a misunderstanding or incident could destroy nearly the whole world in hours. Furthermore, they thought they were safe against every other country because no one would try to catch up with the huge lead made by the USA and Russia. Also the contracts the USA and Russia signed to prevent an uncontrollable explanation of nuclear arms build-up, seemed to be the end of nuclear arms build-up worldwide. Just as nobody expected China to grow that fast to world power, no one dared to think about the nuclear arms build-up by China at such a pace. That’s caused by the fact that no one saw the advantages of starting to build nuclear weapons, because of the risks visible in the cold war. This shows a principle of China which is also their biggest strength: When other countries are saying “this project isn’t realizable” - China will just do it and mostly even better than anyone could ever imagine.

The pursuit of power - why is China building new silos for nuclear rockets?

When the cold war ended, the USA and Russia made contracts to protect world peace, which included the general ambition to build down nuclear arms. This was the perfect moment for China to rise and to start building up nuclear arms because the USA and Russia were exhausted by the cold war. Some weeks ago some USA agencies detected 119 Chinese silos for nuclear weapons in the construction process on satellite photos. With regards to this discovery, the USA expressed their concerns about this development. Currently, China owns ca. 320 nuclear weapons, which is far away from the 6.255 of Russia and the 5.550 of the USA. Also, China plans to modify their U- Boats thus they could transport their nuclear weapons over the sea and start them from there which allows them a bigger range. This is the efficient way China is opening new windows to support its political, economical and social power.

China makes its presence felt - how China’s nuclear armament influences other countries

More and more China is growing to one of the economically strongest countries in the world, which becomes visible if you look at the increasing investment in the defence industry, especially in nuclear arms. It's a clear sign for the USA and Russia as well as for other countries, for example in Europe or Asia. Now the world is unsure how to react to the Chinese nuclear arms build-up because China is one, if not the most, important trading partner for most of the countries of industry. That’s why isolating China from the world wouldn’t be a good reaction. It should be the strategy of the UNO to avoid a second cold war or the splitting of the world into two parts while conducting conversations with China and discussing the current development. A possible solution would be a nuclear build down contract between the USA, Russia and China under the neutral observation of the UNO to get control over the potentially escalating situation. However this will end, the world should not underestimate China a second time.

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