China achieves break through in phase 3 nuclear by converting thorium to uranium.

Really?

It's hard to enough to fuse hydrogen to helium in a controlled, useful way, and although the controlled fusion has been attained it costs an enormous amount of added energy, and maintaining the reaction continuously and suitably for power generation is still very elusive.

Thorium to uranium though? Do you have the source of that announcement? It looks wrong, as if relayed by a journalist who did not really understand what the scientists had reported.

I don't think that's what they are doing

They created a molten salt nuclear reactor that generates nuclear energy through thorium fission rather than uranium fission

The west could have done that too, but we didn't

Time for us to infiltrate their lab!

Half of China is in paper.