Originally Posted by
ORAC
I think that means the US triad is sub-standard, if you see what I mean…
Not quite, yet.
China has <<1000 Nuclear Warheads, the US has >5000.
Conventionally the Chinese Armed Forces are surely the closest competitor to the US. On the Nuclear side of things Russia is pretty much on par with to the US, whereas China is more in the order of magnitude of combined Western Europe (UK + France + Nuclear Sharing Italy, Germany, Turkye)