Hardening Chinese Realpolitik in the 21st Century

Increasingly, policymakers, observers and scholars are calling for including China in nuclear arms-control efforts. Missing from debates, however, is a thorough analysis of Chinese perspectives. Drawing extensively on Chinese-language sources, this article traces the evolution of arms-control views among Chinese strategists and experts during the last decade. Updating earlier scholarship, we find that most Chinese strategists tend to view arms-control efforts through a strongly realpolitik prism. Many lament US domination of the arms-control agenda and believe US initiatives are intended to undermine Chinese nuclear deterrence. In recent years, these views have hardened. Chinese strategists increasingly see arms control as an arena for zero-sum military and political struggle

Arms control · Beijing · China · Control (management · Deterrence theory · Economics · Lament · Management · Nuclear weapon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realpolitik · Scholarship · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense

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