The US State Department has confirmed that China could be conducting secret nuclear tests, which is in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). Furthermore this is an alarming situation as the world is already struggling to contain coronavirus, and the last thing we need to see is a nuclear tests and a nuclear war. This article also states that China prepared the virus in a lab to show that it’s superior than America, but it seems this plan of theirs has spectacularly backfired on them. It’s also pertinent to note that these accusations by American will harm their relationship with China, and it’ll be interesting to see how these two super powers will continue balancing their delicate relationship.
The State Department is concerned China may be conducting small nuclear tests in secret, possibly violating an international agreement banning such tests, Fox News confirmed Wednesday.
China has been under growing scrutiny over its handling of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. There is increasing confidence that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as part of China's effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses were equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on government actions and seen relevant materials revealed to Fox News.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-small-nuclear-tests-secret-state-departmenthttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/16/china-may-have-conducted-low-level-nuclear-test-us-report-claimshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/16/coronavirus-world-map-which-countries-have-the-most-cases-and-deaths