With everything happening across the globe on a daily basis, there is no greater horror on the world stage than to imagine a nuclear war between China and America. Any country with any rationality would understand that this apex of potential destruction is something to avoid entirely. Still, Chinese state media has turned up the heat on rhetoric towards preparing for an event just like this.

In reporting from Newsmax this week, China is now calling for its military forces to prepare for nuclear war as a “strategic deterrence” against America. A mouthpiece of the communist party in China spoke out on the idea from a news agency called The Global Times.

Hu Xijin, editor for The Global Times, wrote, “We must be prepared for an intense showdown between China and the U.S. The number of China’s nuclear warheads must reach the quantity that makes the U.S. elites shiver should they entertain the idea of engaging in a military confrontation with China”. He goes on to state that this buildup of military weapons will strike fear into American leaders from taking any action against the adversary nation. 

With recent news over the rise of a digital yuan currency, the slave labor population of Uighurs and others who choose to believe in a religion or God, global hacks, war threats against ally nations like Taiwan and Australia and the potential that Covid 19 came from a lab in Wuhan with a following cover up of the information, China has shown itself to be an enemy of free life around the globe. Now, it’s planning to enhance its capabilities in the face of scrutiny. 

Xijin continued his defense, saying “As the U.S. strategic containment of China has increasingly intensified, I would like to remind again that we have plenty of urgent tasks, but among the most important ones is to rapidly increase the number of commissioned nuclear warheads, and the DF 41s, the strategic missiles that are capable to strike long range and have high survivability in the Chinese arsenal.”

Xijin concluded his press release saying that, “U.S. hostility toward China is burning. We must use our strength, and consequences that Washington cannot afford to bear if it takes risky moves, to keep them sober.”

So their plan currently is to add more weapons to the arsenal. They will also increase narratives of potential conflict rather than deescalate by stopping threats to take over surrounding nations. Instead of setting the slaves free, they’d rather prepare for war to fight to protect their slave labor. Rather than let nations investigate the origins of the Covid pandemic, they want to beef up security. Rather than pull back on hacks or currency manipulation, they want a fight while they pretend to play victim to U.S. action towards the nation. In a place where individual liberty and freedom do not exist, it is no surprise that China is ready to sacrifice its own people and the people of the planet for greater power.