Actions intensification of competition, the emergence of diver- taken to stabilize one relationship (e.g., to stay ahead gent visions of the needed regional and global orders, of the North Korean missile threat to the US homeland and the rising risks of military confrontation. [...] ORG 15 Second, the United States and China should work commitment to exercise self-restraint in damage limi- together with the other members of the P5, the tation efforts, and a commitment by China not to seek five nuclear weapon states recognized by the quantitative nuclear parity with the United States and to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to develop a exercise self-restraint on the numerical. [...] About two thousand of the United States’ United States, China is projected to at least double nuclear weapons are retired warheads awaiting dis- the number of its warheads over the next decade.7 mantlement.1 Although the United States and russia The uncertainty surrounding China’s nuclear arsenal is collectively possess the vast majority of the world’s driven by the fact that the Chinese governmen. [...] The basic reduction Treaty in 1991, the United States began to tenets of China’s nuclear strategy include maintaining reduce the number and types of nuclear weapons a “minimum nuclear deterrent” that provides China in its strategic arsenal both to meet the obligations with a reliable second-strike capability (i.e., the ability of the treaty and as part of its nuclear modernization to deliver a ret. [...] During the Obama administration, China and repeatedly criticized the United States and the Soviet the United States did establish an official dialogue about Union for failing to genuinely advance nuclear disar- the safety and security of nuclear materials and facilities, mament despite signing the partial Nuclear Test Ban but the dialogue did not extend to nuclear weapons, Treaty, the Nuclear Non-.
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