Three ranking Republican members urged President Biden to stop China’s nuclear arms expansion in a joint letter earlier this week, warning that failure to act could lead to “a degree of nuclear parity” between China and the United States by 2030. In the letter, Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) of the House Armed Services Committee, Michael McCaul (R-Texas), of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) of the House Intelligence Committee, noted that China’s rapidly developing nuclear forces pose a growing threat and that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is unwilling to engage in a good-faith arms race and arms control negotiations with the United States. Adm. Charles Richard, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, testified in front of Congress that China has moved some of its nuclear weapons to alert status and that its nuclear stockpile is estimated to double in the next 10 years. Rogers and others …
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