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US Releases New Details on Alleged 2020 Chinese Nuclear Test

The blast is not consistent with an earthquake, said one expert: ‘It is ... what you would expect with a nuclear explosive test.’
US Releases New Details on Alleged 2020 Chinese Nuclear Test
People's Liberation Army soldiers march past an old Chinese medium range ballistic missile on display in front of Beijing's military museum on July 26, 1999. Stephen Shaver/AFP via Getty Images
Kimberly Hayek
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A senior State Department official released additional evidence on Feb. 17 in support of U.S. allegations that China conducted an underground nuclear test in June 2020, as global arms control frameworks unravel.

Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw, while speaking to a Hudson Institute meeting, discussed data from a remote seismic station in Kazakhstan that recorded a magnitude 2.75 “explosion” approximately 450 miles from China’s Lop Nur test grounds on June 22, 2020.
Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.