As American power wanes due to military and political failures, other nations are seeking to take advantage of the vacuum being left behind, and now China has threatened the United States with nuclear retaliation if we attempt to help our ally Taiwan if mainland China decides to invade. The London Financial Times reports quotes General Zhu Chenghu as saying that in such as scenario, “I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons. If the Americans are determined to interfere [then] we will be determined to respond.” Chinese authority Rick Fisher reminds us that China’s official doctrine has been not to use nuclear weapons in a first strike attack. China held its first atomic weapons test in 1964.
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