Professor Tiefer: A Trillion for a Nuclear Build-Up to Meet China's Defense Growth? Not Needed.
September 25, 2015
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Writing in Forbes, University of Baltimore School of Law Professor Charles Tiefer says it appears that China is not interested in a large-scale build-up of weapons to compete with the United States—and conversely, the U.S. should not engage in massive defense expenditures to meet a perceived Chinese threat.
"[Chinese ruler] Xi Jinping's overall reassuring stance on his state visit to the United States could help the public understand that China does not want the kind of full-scale strategic parity with the United States that Russia built up from 1949 to 1990," Tiefer writes. "To deal with China, we need the weapons to balance China's growing strength in Asia. But, for that, we do not need to beggar ourselves by spending a trillion dollars for the defense contractors’ vision of a new Cold War."
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