China’s Modernising Nuclear Forces: In the Face of US Nuclear Primacy

Bojian Liu

East Asian Policy (EAP), 2018, vol. 10, issue 03, 108-117

Abstract: Since 2001, when the United States has accelerated the strengthening of its nuclear primacy with a clearer strategy of assured destruction against any rivals, China has encountered greater pressure to further modernise its nuclear forces. In highlighting the enhanced credibility of its retaliation-based nuclear deterrence under the no-first-use doctrine, China is enhancing command and control of nuclear forces, upgrading its nuclear triad, and constructing its early warning and rapid response capabilities. However, with a further destabilising global nuclear order, more normative challenges have been plaguing China’s nuclear modernisation.

Date: 2018
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