{"id":76477,"date":"2026-02-24T10:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/24\/us-accuses-china-of-massively-expanding-nuclear-arsenal-amid-fears-of-new-arms-race"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:06:59","slug":"us-accuses-china-of-massively-expanding-nuclear-arsenal-amid-fears-of-new-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76477","title":{"rendered":"US accuses China of \u2018massively\u2019 expanding nuclear arsenal amid fears of new arms race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has opposed the \u2018smearing of its nuclear policy\u2019  while insisting Beijing would not \u2018engage in any nuclear arms race\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The US has accused China of dramatically expanding its nuclear arsenal, while doubling down on claims that Beijing had conducted secret nuclear tests.<\/p>\n<p>Washington said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/03\/expiry-nuclear-weapons-pact-us-russia-arms-race\">lapsing of New Start<\/a> \u2013 the last treaty between top nuclear powers the US and Russia \u2013 earlier this month presented the possibility of striking a \u201cbetter agreement\u201d that included Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/24\/us-accuses-china-of-massively-expanding-nuclear-arsenal-amid-fears-of-new-arms-race\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has opposed the \u2018smearing of its nuclear policy\u2019  while insisting Beijing would not \u2018engage in any nuclear arms race\u2019The US has accused China of dramatically expanding its nuclear arsenal, while doubling down on claims that Beijing had conducted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,441,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nuclear-weapons","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76478,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76477\/revisions\/76478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}