Update: Despite the Lunar New Year holiday,Beijing has made it known it is not best pleased with Washington digging up Nuke blasts from the past.
Issuing a statement via state mouthpiece (@HuXijin_GT), the CCP suggested an ulterior motive for the timing of this announcement:
"Trump is eager to resume nuclear testing and needs a plausible reason, and accusing China of conducting nuclear tests is the perfect pretext.
Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw stated on Tuesday that the US is prepared to conduct low-yield nuclear tests in response to alleged secret nuclear tests by China and Russia.
TheUS is being far too hasty; having just fabricated rumorsthat China conducted an explosive nuclear test nearly six years ago, they are already announcing their own low-yield nuclear test.
Washington's motives for spreading these rumors are too clear; they can't even be bothered to feign it."
Hard to disagree with the latter point.
As Kimberley Hayek detailed earlier via The Epoch Times,a senior State Department official released additional evidence Tuesday in support of U.S. allegations that China conducted an underground nuclear test in June 2020, as global arms control frameworks unravel.
Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw, whilespeakingto a Hudson Institute meeting, discussed data froma remote seismic station in Kazakhstan that recorded a magnitude 2.75 “explosion” approximately 450 miles from China’s Lop Nur test grounds on June 22, 2020.
“I’ve looked at additional data since then. There is very little possibility I would say that it is anything but an explosion, a singular explosion,” Yeaw said, underscoring that the data were not consistent with blasts from mining.
Source: ZeroHedge News
