Chinese State Media Warns Of ‘Nuclear Showdown’ With United States After Biden Asks For Covid-19 Probe

by Bhaswati Guha Majumder - Jun 2, 2021 06:32 PM

PLA

Snapshot

• The threatening op-ed comes at a time when protests in Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as the accusations against China for being engaged in the genocide of Uighur Muslims and the Covid-19 pandemic, are showing deeper divisions in an already tense relationship between both countries.

A Chinese state-run newspaper has launched a ferocious attack on the United States, threatening it with a possible nuclear showdown.

The editor of the Chinese government’s mouthpiece newspaper the Global Times said that enhancing China’s nuclear program has become vital to the country’s “strategic deterrence” against the United States.