There is increasing unease in Washington about China’s nuclear ambitions. The Pentagon says Beijing is on track to double the number of its nuclear warheads by the decade’s end, to 1,000 from 500 — a development that senior U.S. officials have publicly called “unprecedented” and “breathtaking.” China has drastically expanded its nuclear testing facility and continued work on three new missile fields in the country’s north, where more than 300 intercontinental ballistic missile silos have recently been constructed.
China’s transformation from a small nuclear power into an exponentially larger one is a historic shift, upending the delicate two-peer balance of the world’s nuclear weapons for the entirety of the atomic age. The Russian and American arsenals — their growth, reduction and containment — have defined this era; maintaining an uneasy peace between the two countries hinged on open communication channels, agreement on nuclear norms and diplomacy.
In February, in a rare offer for nuclear diplomacy, China openly invited the United States and other nuclear powers to negotiate a treaty in which all sides would pledge never to use nuclear weapons first against one another. “The policy is highly stable, consistent and predictable,” said Sun Xiaobo, director general of the Chinese foreign ministry’s Department of Arms Control, in Geneva on Feb. 26. “It is, in itself, an important contribution to the international disarmament process.”
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Vzhľadom na potenciál trojstranných pretekov v zbrojení, ako by mali krajiny vyvážiť potrebu národnej bezpečnosti s rizikami eskalácie vývoja jadrových zbraní?
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Aký je váš názor na koncepciu zásad „bez prvého použitia“ jadrových zbraní? Myslíte si, že sú dostatočné na to, aby zabránili jadrovej vojne?
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Ako by ste reagovali, keby sa vaša krajina zapojila do rokovaní o jadrových zbraniach s národom, ktorý otvorene rozširuje svoje jadrové kapacity?
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Myslíte si, že krajina, ktorá rozširuje svoje jadrové zbrane, predstavuje hrozbu pre svetový mier, alebo ide o formu sebaobrany?
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Ako vnímate myšlienku jednej krajiny výrazne zvýšiť svoj jadrový arzenál v dnešnom svete?