’s Tiananmen Square massacre, in which hundreds — possibly thousands — of anti-regime protesters were murdered by Chinese troops.
Around the same time, Chinese aircraft were “thumping” a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft — flying so closely that our plane had to fly through the Chinese aircraft’s wake — and a Chinese ship cut across the bow of a U.S. Navy ship so that the American vessel had to nearly stop in order to avoid a collision. Both incidents were on or over international waters.
, which has about 400 nuclear weapons, is reportedly increasing that number to 700 nuclear weapons by 2027 and 1,000 by 2030. Mr. Xi’s statement, to say the least, lacks credibility.will attack Taiwan in the next few years. It could threaten to or use nuclear weapons against our defending forces. Some nations’ leaders — Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Mr. Xi as well as North Korea’s Kim Jong Un — speak in calm, almost ghoulish terms in describing how they might resort to using nuclear weapons.