New Delhi: The commander of the United States Pacific Fleet, Admiral Scott Swift, has said he would dispatch an atomic strike against China one week from now if President Donald Trump ordered it.

The US Navy Admiral put forth the staggering expression while tending to a security meeting at Australian National University.

Offering an explanation to a speculative inquiry whether he would make an atomic assault on China one week from now if Trump requested it, Swift answered: "The appropriate response would be: yes."

He additionally cautioned against the US military consistently moving its devotion from its president.

"Each individual from the US military has making a solemn vow to protect the constitution of the United States against all foes outside and residential and to comply with the officers and the leader of the United States as administrator and boss named over us," Swift said.

Australia and the United States as of late held their greatest ever joint military activities, a show of constrain, to a great extent adrift, went for communicating something specific both to partners and potential enemies, including China.

The activities included 33,000 US and Australian troops on board ships outfitted with strike planes.

The military activities were held as strain over China's more decisive movement, especially in the debated South China Sea, are raising feelings of dread of the showdown.

Relations between the United States and China have soured as of late as the United States looks to counter what it sees as Chinese self-assuredness in the Pacific, epitomized by Beijing's fake island working in the South China Sea.