China Warns Latest U.S. Missile Test Will Trigger New Arms Race

The U.S. tested a new sail missile in California on Sunday and Formosan official warn today that it will almost certainly lead to a fresh weapons system wash .

“ This measure from the U.S. will trigger a new unit of ammunition of an blazonry race , lead to an escalation of military confrontation , which will have a serious electronegative impact on the external and regional certificate situation , ” Chinese Foreign Minister Geng Shuang said on Tuesday , according to a interlingual rendition by theManila Times .

Geng said the U.S. should “ get go of its Cold War wit , ” according to the Manila Times .

Defense Department conducts a flight test of a new ground-launched cruise missile at San Nicolas Island, California at 2:30 pm PT on August 18, 2019

Defense Department conducts a flight test of a new ground-launched cruise missile at San Nicolas Island, California at 2:30 pm PT on August 18, 2019Photo: (DVIDS)

The medium - stove projectile traveled 310 international nautical mile ( 500 km ) on Sunday , according to the U.S. Defense Department , and was conducted from San Nicolas Island , California , roughly 60 mi from the mainland coast in Southern California . The missile is not atomic - outfit , at least fit in to the U.S. military machine , but resembles the nuclear - capable medium - reach version of the Tomahawk projectile that was take out out of service in the late eighties .

The novel missile would have been ostracize under the 1987 Intermediate - Range Nuclear Forces ( INF ) Treaty that was in the first place sign by the U.S. and the Soviet Union , which banned development of missiles with a range of 310 - 3,400 miles ( 500 - 5,500 km ) . The U.S. pulled out of the treaty on August 2 of this yr , though China was never a company to that agreement .

The DoD released a telecasting of the teston Monday , but it append a strange dim - motion effect to the launching that was n’t explain . Perhaps the military just like adding an aesthetic tucket to its video now .

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But China is n’t the only country upset about the new U.S. missile test .

“ All this elicits rue , the United States has obviously taken the course of escalating military tensions . We will not succumb to provocation , ” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov saidaccording to TASS .

“ We wo n’t permit ourselves to be draw into a costly arms raceway , ” Ryabkov added .

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And that ’s where things get more tricky , because Russia is clearly charter in its own development of next - coevals weapons that could easily be mistaken for an weapon race . In fact , the late cryptical detonation that bolt down at least five scientists in Russia is believe to have been cause by a atomic reactor that was supposed to powernew atomic weapons . Russian radiotherapy sensing sites have evengone darkin the backwash of the incident , leading to raft of conspiracy possibility .

While China may have a point that the U.S. is dig in in a “ Cold War mentality , ” it takes two to tango . Or three , since Russia is clearly doing its own posturing in this New Cold War .

All we can say for sure is that it ’s pass to get a flock more uncongenial before anything calms down , and that ’s defective news for human beings . Webarelysurvivedthe first Cold War , ease up all the near - misses and nuclear mistaking we now know about from chronicle . And it seems highly unlikely that we ’d survive a New Cold War since human organism have n’t precisely gotten any chic in the past 30 year .

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