US concerns about China's underground nuclear test explosions


US concerns about China's underground nuclear test explosions


china may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the United States State Department said in a report on Wednesday that could fuel US-China tensions.





The finding, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, may worsen ties already strained by US charges that the global Covid-19 pandemic resulted from Beijing's mishandling of a 2019 outbreak of coronavirus in the city of Wuhan

US concerns about Beijing's possible breaches of a "zero yield" standard for test blasts have been prompted by activities at China's Lop Nur nuclear test site throughout 2019, the State Department report said.





Zero yield refers to a nuclear test in which there is no explosive chain reaction of the type ignited by the detonation of a nuclear warhead

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