There has been a lot of criticism from Europe about President Obama’s plan for achieving a nuclear weapons free world, essentially because most columnists there think it wildly naive. This commentary from the Global Geographic Times of the People’s Republic of China, however, sees the idea as a way for America to extend its global dominance by denying the rest of the world any way to deter the United States, which has the most potent conventional military in history.
For China’s strictly state-controlled Global Geographic Times, columnist Wen Qiang, writes in part:
“What country in the world could possibly rival the United States in conventional weaponry – except through the use of nuclear weapons? … this so-called nuclear-free world being proposed by America is purely for the elimination of nuclear weapons in other countries, so that the U.S. can be the only game in town and continue its global hegemony. … Frankly speaking, our country’s combined national conventional forces are quite a limited deterrent compared to those of the United States. Even compared to European and other developed countries, we are at a disadvantage … Sooner or later, this American trick will be seen for what it is.”
By Wen Qiang
Translated By Mark Klingman
April 20, 2009
People’s Republic of China – Global Geographic Times – Original Article (Chinese)
Since the successful development of nuclear weapons by the United States, the world has been shrouded in nuclear terror. This was particularly true just after World War II, when the world was dumbfounded by the destructive power of the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Japan. It is said that all nuclear weapons in current inventories are much more powerful than those two combined. Therefore, the nuclear weapons states have banded together to create groups to use their influence to inhibit the continuing spread of nuclear weapons. However, because of their own security, the very “deterrence” sought by the nuclear powers has created rising alarm among non-nuclear states – with more and more countries seeking these types of unconventional weapons. This is why Iran and North Korea are bent at all costs on developing nuclear weapons.
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