China’s new arms-control white paper offers a revealing snapshot of how Beijing pairs declaratory restraint with a rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal to shape its strategic narrative with the US. The document, published this month reaffirms China’s “no-first-use” (NFU) pledge and its refusal to deploy nuclear weapons abroad or threaten non-nuclear states, portraying itself as a […]
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