George Yeo, former foreign minister of Singapore, on the titanic struggle in the Indo-Pacific. China is arming itself with nuclear weapons, and its relationship with the other great power, the United States, is characterized by coldness and threatening gestures.
China's push for more nuclear weapons has to do with the so-called second-strike capability, i.e. the possibility of responding to a nuclear attack with a counterstrike. The U.S. sees its global supremacy threatened and is trying by all means to slow down China.