Shen Jian, China's ambassador for disarmament affairs, told the committee that China's no-first-use policy "requires maintaining a certain level of ambiguity regarding its nuclear arsenal to ensure the survivability of its limited nuclear forces". "As long as no country uses nuclear weapons again...
According to the report, which provides the annual U.S. assessment of China's military power and is required by Congress, By mid-2024, China had over 600 operational nuclear warheads, and the Pentagon expects it will have more than 1,000 by 2030. The Pentagon's estimate of China's curre...
China seeks to maintain the credibility of its nuclear retaliatory capabilities and increase the survivability and penetration of its nuclear weapons. These interactions are part
Nuclear weapons are a product of history and nuclear disarmament will naturally have a historical process. Demanding that countries with vastly different nuclear policies and the number of nuclear weapons assume the same level of nuclear disarmament and nuclear transparency obligations is not consistent w...
Additionally, the principle of nuclear non-proliferation should be upheld in the Middle East. With Israel reportedly owning nuclear weapons, Iran having nuclear facilities, some countries in the Middle East are seeking nuclear capabilities. However, the nuclear non-proliferation principle should be ...
Nuclear risks between the United States and China manifest differently than those of the past U.S.-Soviet nuclear competition, or that of the United States and Russia today.
heavily influenced by technology derived from other countries; Russia has been the top supplier of foreign military equipment in recent years; China has one of the world's largest defense-industrial sectors and is capable of producing advanced weapons systems across all military domains (2024)note...
China always keeps its nuclear strength at the minimum level required by national security, and never engages in arms race with anyone. For any country, as long as they do not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against China, they will not find China’s nuclear weapons to be a threat...
China stands ready to work with other parties to continuously strive toward the goal of complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons, and the ultimate realization of a world free of nuclear weapons, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular press conference...
“We are approaching, or maybe have already reached, the end of a long period of the number of nuclear weapons worldwide declining,” Dan Smith, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), said in a statement. “The stockpile is the usable nuclear warheads, ...