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With three strongman leaders of unstable, nuclear-weapon nations, «there has never been a more dangerous moment in history,» warns a prominent China watcher.
Gordon G. Chang, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute who spent nearly two decades in Mainland China and Hong Kong, pointed in a video interview with WND (embedded below) to Xi Jinping of China, Kim Jong Un of North Korea and Vladimir Putin of Russia.
«Some of us remember the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 or the Checkpoint Charlie Crisis of 1961 in Berlin,» he said. «They look, on the surface, to be more dangerous. But we know from the archives that neither Khrushchev nor Kennedy were willing to use their most destructive weapons.
«We don’t know that about three individuals right now,» said Chang, who has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department and the Department of Defense, and testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
«All three of them have been making threats – first strike threats – with their nuclear weapons, both strategic and tactical,» he said.
«This moment, where we see the Russians desperate, where we see the Chinese political system in distress, where we see a North Korea that is quite fragile – these leaders have incentives to do things that could take us by surprise.»
Chang noted that one month ago, Biden warned during a closed Democratic fundraiser that the world is at risk of a nuclear «Armageddon» if Russia deploys tactical nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine.
«I think that’s important for him to say that,» Chang said of Biden. «But it’s more important for him to say that to the entire American people.
