The US needs to urgently update and expand both its nuclear arsenal and the conventional military in order to face the combined might of Russia and China, the congressional Strategic Posture Commission argued in its final report published on Thursday.

“The United States and its allies must be ready to deter and defeat both adversaries simultaneously,” the commission said. “The US-led international order and the values it upholds are at risk from the Chinese and Russian authoritarian regimes.”

While the commission has not identified any specific evidence of Russia and China working together, “we worry… there may be ultimate coordination between them in some way, which gets us to this two-war construct,” a senior official involved in the report told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The current US national security strategy calls for defeating one major adversary while deterring another.

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