{"id":54386,"date":"2025-11-03T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/china-denies-trumps-claim-to-60-minutes-about-nuclear-weapons-tests-calls-on-u-s-to-ensure-global-stability\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:05:40","slug":"china-denies-trumps-claim-to-60-minutes-about-nuclear-weapons-tests-calls-on-u-s-to-ensure-global-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/china-denies-trumps-claim-to-60-minutes-about-nuclear-weapons-tests-calls-on-u-s-to-ensure-global-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"China denies Trump&#8217;s claim to 60 Minutes about nuclear weapons tests, calls on U.S. to ensure global stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry responded on Monday to President <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-on-nuclear-testing-government-shutdown-immigration-tariffs-china-60-minutes-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Trump&#8217;s assertion<\/a><\/span> that Beijing has conducted clandestine nuclear weapons testing with a flat denial. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China&#8217;s testing &#8217;em too,&#8221; Mr. Trump told CBS News correspondent Norah O&#8217;Donnell in an <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/read-full-transcript-norah-odonnell-60-minutes-interview-with-president-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">interview for 60 Minutes<\/a><\/span>. &#8220;You just don&#8217;t know about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia&#8217;s testing, and China&#8217;s testing, but they don&#8217;t talk about it. You know, we&#8217;re a open society. We&#8217;re different. We talk about it. We have to talk about it, because otherwise you people are going to report \u2014 they don&#8217;t have reporters that going to be writing about it. We do.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump made the claim in the interview with O&#8217;Donnell that aired just days after the president&#8217;s own nominee to lead STRATCOM \u2014 the U.S. military command in charge of nuclear weapons \u2014 told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that neither China nor Russia were conducting nuclear explosive tests.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/02\/d734c26f-db6b-4b12-8e73-562a5894f75a\/thumbnail\/620x349\/9f8a607dc966f734e24788633dfec53c\/stills-clean-2.jpg#\" alt=\"stills-clean-2.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/02\/d734c26f-db6b-4b12-8e73-562a5894f75a\/thumbnail\/620x349\/9f8a607dc966f734e24788633dfec53c\/stills-clean-2.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/02\/d734c26f-db6b-4b12-8e73-562a5894f75a\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/b6d82ec91d8ed96cfe5636a1344ba953\/stills-clean-2.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">President Trump speaks with CBS News correspondent Norah O&#8217;Donnell during an interview for 60 Minutes that was broadcast on Nov. 2, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>North Korea is the only nation known to have conducted a nuclear detonation since the 1990s. China&#8217;s last known nuclear explosive test was in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t go and tell you about it,&#8221; continued Mr. Trump. &#8220;You know, as powerful as they are, this is a big world. You don&#8217;t necessarily know where they&#8217;re testing. They \u2014 they test way under- underground where people don&#8217;t know exactly what&#8217;s happening with the test.<\/p>\n<p>You feel a little bit of a vibration. They test and we don&#8217;t test. We have to test. And Russia did make a little bit of a threat the other day when they said they were gonna do certain forms of a different level of testing. But Russia tests, China- and China does test, and we&#8217;re gonna test also.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Mr. Trump&#8217;s claims on Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters during a press briefing that as a &#8220;responsible nuclear-weapons state, China has always &#8230; upheld a self-defense nuclear strategy and abided by its commitment to suspend nuclear testing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/03\/4169ee57-727b-424e-87a0-3a4d5f805898\/thumbnail\/620x413\/33c676a9190864cb87216ee4bc45b111\/china-jl-3-missile-2233492026.jpg#\" alt=\"China Unveils New Weapons In V-Day Parade \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/03\/4169ee57-727b-424e-87a0-3a4d5f805898\/thumbnail\/620x413\/33c676a9190864cb87216ee4bc45b111\/china-jl-3-missile-2233492026.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/03\/4169ee57-727b-424e-87a0-3a4d5f805898\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/b6c4da44b3fb65fc658f7f54199e60ab\/china-jl-3-missile-2233492026.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A Chinese JL-3 submarine-launched intercontinental missile, designed to have the capacity to carry multiple nuclear warheads, is seen during the V-Day military parade, Sept. 3, 2025, in Beijing, China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                VCG\/VCG\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She said China hoped the U.S. would &#8220;take concrete actions to safeguard the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime and maintain global strategic balance and stability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>What does Trump mean by U.S. resuming nuclear tests?<\/h2>\n<p>President Trump has not been clear about whether his stated <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-restart-nuclear-weapons-testing-china-xi\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">plans to have the U.S. military test its nuclear arsenal<\/a><\/span> include conducting actual atomic explosions, or just expanded testing of the weapons systems used to deliver nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, downplayed the notion on Sunday that the U.S. was about to start setting off nuclear explosions.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I think the tests we&#8217;re talking about right now are system tests. These are not nuclear explosions,&#8221; Wright told Fox News. &#8220;These are what we call &#8216;non-critical explosions,&#8217; so you&#8217;re testing all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure they deliver the appropriate geometry and they set up the nuclear explosion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/08\/08\/1b184e11-b340-4338-9a61-99f56d4e01cb\/thumbnail\/620x413\/6a77baa0ecb3dcf17437a3ee9db8c090\/ap23122588892511.jpg#\" alt=\"Nuclear Missile Base Cancer \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/08\/08\/1b184e11-b340-4338-9a61-99f56d4e01cb\/thumbnail\/620x413\/6a77baa0ecb3dcf17437a3ee9db8c090\/ap23122588892511.jpg 1x, 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international Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which bans all atomic test explosions.<\/p>\n<p>Along with China and several other nuclear powers, however, the U.S. has never ratified the treaty, a situation that President Vladimir Putin highlighted two years ago when he decided to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/putin-russia-nuclear-test-ban-treaty-ratification-revoke\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">revoke Moscow&#8217;s ratification<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>While Russia has stepped up its own tests of nuclear-capable weapons systems, it has not said it will resume nuclear detonations.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section 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