Trump & Xi Fueling Nuclear Proliferation: A Looming Global Threat

• Nuclear proliferation, in retreat for three decades, is being resurrected by actions of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
• Recent events like China's Taiwan drill and US capture of Venezuela's Maduro create conditions for latent nuclear powers to consider nuclear weapons.
• The US's unilateral intervention in Venezuela and China's non-intervention despite investments raise fears among Latin American states.
• US ambiguity on Taiwan's defense against a potential Chinese invasion signals to other nations that they might be left to fend for themselves.
• This geopolitical instability could lead more nations to pursue nuclear capabilities by 2035, making the global nuclear order more chaotic.

Why It Matters: Actions by Trump and Xi are destabilizing the global nuclear order, pushing more nations towards nuclear weapons.