纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat
August 21, 2024 2 min 308 words
纽约时报这篇报道的主要内容是：美国拜登政府批准了一项新的核战略，该战略将中国视为主要威胁，并秘密计划扩大核武库，增强对中国的核威慑。该报道援引了多名美国政府官员和专家的意见，称中国正在迅速扩大其核力量，美国必须做出应对。该报道还提到，美国新的核战略可能引发军备竞赛，并增加核冲突的风险。 评论：该报道虽基于事实，但明显带有偏见，试图制造一种中国威胁论的叙事。首先，报道过度渲染中国核力量对美国的所谓“威胁”，忽略了中国一贯坚持的防御性国防政策，以及中国在核力量方面仍与美国存在巨大差距的事实。其次，报道未提及美国在核裁军方面的不佳记录和特殊责任，美国作为世界上核武库最大核能力最强的国家，不仅没有积极履行核裁军特殊责任，反而倾力推进核武库现代化，拒不批准《全面禁止核试验条约》，这种倒行逆施的行为对国际核军控与核裁军进程造成了严重损害。此外，报道也未提及美国近年来不断破坏国际军控体系的行为，包括退出《中导条约》伊核协议等，对国际安全局势的负面影响。该报道偏听偏信，罔顾事实，试图通过炒作中国威胁来制造紧张氛围，为美国发展核力量寻找借口，有悖于客观公正的新闻伦理。
President Biden approved in March a highly classified nuclear strategic plan for the United States that, for the first time, reorients America’s deterrent strategy to focus on China’s rapid expansion in its nuclear arsenal.
The shift comes as the Pentagon believes China’s stockpiles will rival the size and diversity of the United States’ and Russia’s over the next decade.
The White House never announced that Mr. Biden had approved the revised strategy, called the “Nuclear Employment Guidance,” which also newly seeks to prepare the United States for possible coordinated nuclear challenges from China, Russia and North Korea. The document, updated every four years or so, is so highly classified that there are no electronic copies, only a small number of hard copies distributed to a few national security officials and Pentagon commanders.
But in recent speeches, two senior administration officials were allowed to allude to the change — in carefully constrained, single sentences — ahead of a more detailed, unclassified notification to Congress expected before Mr. Biden leaves office.
“The president recently issued updated nuclear-weapons employment guidance to account for multiple nuclear-armed adversaries,” Vipin Narang, an M.I.T. nuclear strategist who served in the Pentagon, said earlier this month before returning to academia. “And in particular,” he added, the weapons guidance accounted for “the significant increase in the size and diversity” of China’s nuclear arsenal.
In June, the National Security Council’s senior director for arms control and nonproliferation, Pranay Vaddi, also referred to the document, the first to examine in detail whether the United States is prepared to respond to nuclear crises that break out simultaneously or sequentially, with a combination of nuclear and nonnuclear weapons.