... developed by the U.S. In Germany there is already a revived NATO military infrastructure, closed in the aftermath of the 1987 INF treaty, and designed for operating INF systems. In the eyes of Moscow there is a high probability of a new Euromissile crisis ... ... nuclear technologies, which is an obvious risk inherent in the AUK–U.S. adventurism. The U.S. strategy of a new cold war with China envisages the creeping involvement of India in the anti-Beijing military alliance, which will inevitably spur a nuclear ...
... sunk in that the withdrawal of the United States from the INF Treaty will leave the world in a state of heightened security threats. Having weathered U.S. military pressure and Washington’s attempts to contain its military power with the help of the INF Treaty, China has stepped up the development and deployment of medium-range missiles and is actively strengthening military exchanges and military-technical cooperation with Russia.
The withdrawal of the United States from the INF Treaty has also dealt a blow ...
... traditional stance, it could earn substantial political and possibly strategic dividends. According to SIPRI data (in the absence of official information from China), the country now has about 100 ground-launched nuclear missiles of types prohibited by the INF treaty.
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The United States is no less concerned about China’s high-precision medium- and short-range non-nuclear missiles (of which it allegedly has up to 2,000), which are capable of striking U.S. aircraft carriers and sites in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Guam.
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These missile types were also covered ...
... official nuclear powers could play a positive role in the current crisis. China is a very important component of the equation: on the one hand, it is has the largest number of missile systems, both nuclear and conventional, which may be covered by the INF Treaty definitions; the United States
estimates
that up to 95 per cent of all China’s missiles are “in violation” of the treaty. On the other hand, China is sure to face the greatest number of threats should the treaty be killed: the United States has long
viewed
the Chinese factor in the context of discussions on the future ...
... mechanisms will look like, but some elements are now certainly relics of the past. First, the bilateral Russian-American format of the arms control regime is giving way to a multilateral focus. Among other issues, the U.S. is increasingly concerned with China’s expanding nuclear arsenal and Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities. In fact, when criticizing the INF Treaty, Trump administration officials have focused more on the fact that the treaty imposes no limitations on China’s nuclear forces.
Second, traditional, legally-binding agreements that are subject to ratification—which have long constituted ...
