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While the world has entered into the second decade of 21^st century, the global strategic pattern, having experienced the post-cold war period, has witnessed the trend of globalization. The international strategic environment has undergone significant changes: cooperation and competition are interwoven among countries and a multi-polar structure has been formed.

China’s nuclear deterrent capability relies on so-called “first strike uncertainty,” which means letting the other side be unconfident of a completely successful first strike.  But the fact that the Soviet Union conducted nuclear threat against China in 1969 showed that first strike uncertainty must be high enough to deter nuclear attack or nuclear threat.  This article examines the threshold.  Only after China deployed the DF-3 intermediate-range ballistic missiles in mid-1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union began to believe China had some nuclear retaliatory capability.  Chinese

China-US Trust Building on Nuclear Strategy: A Chinese Perspective

Zhong Zhenming

School of Political Science and International Relations, Tongji University, China

Zhao, Tong. "Nuclear Signaling and China’s Perception about Nuclear Threat: How China Handled Nuclear Threats in the Cold War" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association Annual Conf