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Nick Givas<\/a>, Rich Edson<\/a> – April 16, 2020<\/p>\n The\u00a0State Department<\/a> is concerned China<\/a> may be conducting small nuclear<\/a> tests in secret, possibly violating an international agreement banning such tests, Fox News confirmed Wednesday.<\/p>\n A new State Department report on compliance with arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament, first obtained by the Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0earlier Wednesday, found that China may be flouting international law by conducting the tests within the northwest region of the country, using low explosive power.<\/p>\n The report<\/a>\u00a0didn’t prove any wrongdoing on the part of the Chinese, but still raised red flags.<\/p>\n “Some compliance concerns are raised and some findings of violations are made,” it read.<\/p>\n Officials wrote that China had maintained a “high level of activity”\u00a0at its Lop Nur site in 2019,\u00a0and could be seeking to operate it year-round\u00a0going forward.<\/p>\n It also mentioned China\u2019s use of explosive containment chambers, extensive evacuations at the site\u00a0and lack of transparency on nuclear testing\u00a0as reasons for raising suspicions.<\/p>\n The report went on to cite further concerns about China’s possible violation of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) by engaging “in biological activities with potential dual-use application.”<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nick Givas, Rich Edson – April 16, 2020 The\u00a0State Department is concerned China may be conducting small nuclear tests in secret, possibly violating an international agreement banning such tests, Fox News confirmed Wednesday. A new State Department report on compliance with arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament, first obtained by the Wall Street Journal\u00a0earlier Wednesday, found … Continue reading China may be conducting secret nuclear tests, State Department warns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[14881,12,14880,1992,2278,1218,821,8],"class_list":["post-18433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-horse","tag-bwc","tag-china","tag-lop-nur","tag-nuclear-testing","tag-nuclear-tests","tag-state-department","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4Nj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18442,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433\/revisions\/18442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}