Top House Republican national security leaders have called on the United States to take “stronger action” over Russia helping China “fuel its strategic nuclear blackout.”
In a March 16 letter to U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) expressed alarm over what they said are “concerning reports that Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, is helping the People’s Republic of China (PRC) acquire enough weapons-grade plutonium to fuel its strategic nuclear breakout.”
Rosatom has had an office in Beijing since 2016, according to the letter….