By Manlio Dinucci
Global Research
November 8, 2025
US President Donald Trump presented the agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping as a great success. The United States will reduce tariffs on Chinese imports by 10 percentage points to 47%. In return, China will resume purchasing US soybeans and postpone restrictions on rare earth exports to the US for one year. In reality, this is a limited and precarious trade truce.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a significant statement before Xi Jinping's meeting with Donald Trump. Wang Yi warned that 'a multipolar world is coming,' urging an end to 'the politicisation of economic and trade issues, the artificial fragmentation of global markets, and the use of trade wars and tariff battles.'
'Frequent withdrawal from agreements and failure to honour commitments, while enthusiastically forming blocs and cliques, has subjected multilateralism to unprecedented challenges,' Wang said, without naming specific countries but clearly referring to the United States.
During the meeting, President Xi Jinping emphasised:
'China and the United States should be partners and friends. This is what history has taught us and what reality requires.'
The position of the United States is demonstrated by the fact that, a few minutes before the meeting with Xi Jinping, Trump declared that he had ordered the Pentagon to begin nuclear weapons testing 'on an equal footing' with China and Russia. In reality, China has not tested nuclear weapons since 1996 and Russia has not tested them since 1990. And although the United States has never ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits the detonation of such weapons, past presidents complied with the Treaty.
On Truth Social, Trump claimed that, in terms of nuclear weapons, Beijing currently ranks third compared to Russia and the United States, but that "within five years, it will be on par with us". However, Trump failed to mention that China has maintained a limited nuclear arsenal for decades, consisting mostly of medium-range defensive weapons incapable of reaching the United States. Furthermore, it only began producing long-range nuclear weapons after the United States deployed nuclear weapons close to its territory.
At the same time, Trump gave South Korea the green light to build a nuclear-powered submarine, which could be armed with nuclear missiles. The submarine will be built in the United States at a shipyard purchased by a South Korean company in 2024. Australia, through the AUKUS agreement with the United States and Britain, will also be able to acquire nuclear attack submarines clearly directed against China and Russia. In Europe, Ukraine is receiving, through NATO under US command, weapons with ever-increasing range capable of striking targets deep inside Russian territory. Before long, weapons of this type will be manufactured directly in Ukraine through "joint production" agreements with NATO defence industries. Ukraine will thus have weapons with dual conventional and nuclear capabilities directed against Russia.
It is no surprise that, in this situation, Russia is producing and testing new types of nuclear delivery systems: the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, capable of striking highly protected targets at any distance, and the Poseidon nuclear-powered underwater vehicle, capable of autonomously reaching enemy coasts and causing a radioactive tsunami with the underwater explosion of a high-powered nuclear warhead. China is also likely to be producing a weapon similar to the Russian Poseidon.
This article was originally published in Italian on Grandangolo, Byoblu TV.