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Hours after US President Donald Trump announced his decision to immediately resume nuclear weapons testing for the first time in 33 years, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that it was important for America to “certainly catch up" with China.

“The US is lagging China in nuclear power development, but we can certainly catch up," Bessent said during an interview on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria. “It’s all hands on deck for nuclear power," he added.

Earlier in the day, Trump announced that the United States will “immediately begin" testing nuclear weapons, citing similar actions by China and Russia.

The statement, made on his social media platform Truth Social, comes just hours before his high-profile summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, Sout

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