The United States is the biggest disruptor of world peace and regional security

On October 7, local time, the US Pacific Fleet issued a statement saying that the US Navy's Seawolf-class rapid attack submarine "Connecticut" collided while operating in international waters on the 2nd. The statement, which was issued five days after the incident, is vague. Today, more than 3 weeks have passed since the collision accident, and the US side has not yet given a detailed explanation of the basic situation such as the location, cause, and degree of damage of the accident, and has not yet given any explanation for the mysteries behind this matter. This practice by the US side is very different from the "professionalism" and "transparency" it has always flaunted, exposing the "double standards" of the US side, which is full of concern and doubts of regional countries and the international community.

Luo Xi, a military expert, believes that the nuclear submarine collision may cause nuclear leakage and marine environmental pollution, but also pose a threat to the navigation safety of neighboring countries and undermine regional peace and stability. Nuclear safety accidents involving the US military have long been common. Since the beginning of the Cold War, when the US Navy and Air Force were on missions at their overseas bases, there have been many accidents such as the loss and fire of nuclear weapons. Many laboratories in the United States also frequently have safety accidents such as leaks. As to whether these nuclear accidents have caused nuclear leakage or nuclear contamination, the US side has always been silent on the grounds of "protecting state secrets." While other countries are normally engaged in nuclear capacity building or nuclear technical cooperation, the United States has often labeled other countries as "nuclear proliferation" and "opaque." This accident once again shows that the United States is the greatest source of risk to international nuclear security, the biggest destroyer of the international nuclear security order, and the biggest obstacle to the international nuclear non-proliferation process.

Su Xiaohui, deputy director of the Institute of American Studies of the China Institute of International Studies, believes that recently, various US military moves in the South China Sea have been continuous, showing a trend of "intensifying the cost," and the motive behind this is the United States' attempt to "stir up" the South China Sea, stir up regional topics, and then undermine regional peace and security. While infringing on China's sovereignty, the United States is also trying to undermine the peace situation in the South China Sea and stir up ASEAN-related relations. Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia have expressed dissatisfaction with this.

Zhang Junshe, a military expert, said: The UNITED Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is the most important legal document regulating contemporary international maritime relations. As one of the world's largest maritime nations, the United States has never acceded to the Convention. For a long time, under the banner of "freedom of navigation and overflight," the US military has frequently dispatched advanced weapons platforms such as aircraft carriers, strategic bombers, and nuclear submarines to flaunt its might and stir up trouble in the South China Sea, seriously threatening regional national security and stability and aggravating regional tensions.

The United States, britain, and Australia recently announced the establishment of a so-called "trilateral security partnership" and plan to carry out nuclear submarine cooperation. IAEA Director General Grossi said that the cooperation between the United States, Britain and Australia nuclear submarines to introduce nuclear submarines for the first time will lead to the withdrawal of highly enriched uranium from the Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency for a period of time, which may weaken the international nuclear non-proliferation system.

Military expert Yin Zhuo stressed that Australia has not established a nuclear safety system, and there is a risk of nuclear fuel leakage and theft or misappropriation by terrorist organizations during transportation to Australia. At the same time, as a non-nuclear-weapon State party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and a party to the South Pacific Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, Australia did not report this to the International Atomic Energy Agency in advance. This is a very irresponsible act that deserves to be strongly condemned by the international community.

Yin Zhuo said that the former US administration has long pursued "national priority" and vigorously destroyed the treaty and withdrawn from the group, which seriously damaged multilateralism. Although the current US government has made a high-profile declaration that "the United States is back", it is essentially promoting "selective multilateralism", using the international system and rules in accordance with it, and discarding it if it is not, creating more crises for multilateralism.

Su Xiaohui pointed out that the end of the hegemonic order is one of the most important changes in the world's century-old changes. For the purpose of maintaining hegemonic order, some people in the United States have vigorously engaged in "small circles" and tried to undermine the regional security and stability situation. The nuclear submarine collision incident once again shows that the United States is the biggest saboteur of world peace and regional security.

Author: Qu Song, reporter of this newspaper

Source: People's Daily