Ever since the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Trump has said it was a mistake for the U.S. military to leave Bagram Air Base, in part, because of its proximity to China . Lately, he's returned to that argument in proposing the base should again be under U.S. control.

"One of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it's an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons," Mr. Trump said in London this month, without offering details about how the U.S. would control it, now that the U.S. military is out of Afghanistan. In an interview with Fox News in late 2021, Mr. Trump also expressed concern that China would "take over Bagram."

China manufactures its nuclear weapons deeper within the country, according to nuclear experts, but there is an old nucle

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