The Chinese Nuclear Restaurant
if you increase your defences, we'll raise the ante.
And we intend to be the winner
in the coming Nuclear Dinner.
If you think you can defend against our missiles by air--
we'll call that group A, if you so dare--
then we'll attack from under the sea,
since, of course, that's our Group B.
Don't ask when this insanity is ever going to cease,
when the only thing never on the menu is peace!
HzL
5/26/16
PS: And if you still think you can avoid a nuclear war,
remember there's also a Russian Restaurant next door.
China to send nuclear-armed submarines into Pacific amid tensions with US
Beijing risks stoking new arms race with move although military says expansion of the US missile defence has left it with no choice
The Chinese military is poised to send submarines armed with nuclear missiles into the Pacific Ocean for the first time, arguing that new US weapons systems have so undermined Beijing’s existing deterrent force that it has been left with no alternative.
Chinese military officials are not commenting on the timing of a maiden patrol, but insist the move is inevitable.
They point to plans unveiled in March to station the US Thaad anti-ballistic system in South Korea, and the development of hypersonic glide missiles potentially capable of hitting China less than an hour after launch, as huge threats to the effectiveness of its land-based deterrent force.
A recent Pentagon report to Congress predicted that “China will probably conduct its first nuclear deterrence patrol sometime in 2016”, though top US officers have made such predictions before.
China has been working on ballistic missile submarine t
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