China is rapidly building new nuclear-missile silos
Their purpose is unclear, but the Americans are worried
ON A HOT and sticky day in the northern city of Tianjin, America and China held their highest-level meeting on Chinese soil since Joe Biden was sworn in as America’s president in January. But the encounter on July 26th between Wendy Sherman, America’s deputy secretary of state, and counterparts from China’s foreign ministry failed to clear the air. Instead, it merely deepened the gloom that hangs over the world’s most critical great-power relationship.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Xi’s shells?”
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