Some scholars explain this as china “seeking global military dominance, not ‘parity’ with the west.”11 On the more specific issue of nuclear deterrence, in his address to the Party Congress, Xi Jinping identified three duties for the newly reorganised pla rocket force (plarf), which has also been elevated to the position of the fourth arm of the military alongside the army, navy and the air force. [...] this paper traces the origin and the evolution of the sino-us nuclear dyad and assesses the current and the emerging contours in their nuclear relations. [...] a ‘research memorandum’ from the State Department’s Office of the Director of intelligence and research on November 2, 1964, stated: “Our pre- October 16th estimates did not anticipate that [china] had the capability of producing the u-235 isotope.”5 Notwithstanding, the Joint chiefs of staff’s assessments following the tests suggest that there was a belief in the us that the nuclear weapon acquis. [...] emerGence of Sino-US nUclear competition while the us has maintained a military presence in china’s neighbourhood since the start of the cold war in the form of extension of the us nuclear umbrella to Japan and south Korea along with deployment of anti-missile units in south Korea and guam islands, the operational aspects of the chinese nuclear strategy received momentum when the us demonstrated s. [...] the us has been concerned about the chinese nuclear challenge to its interests in the Indo-Pacific region, especially as Beijing is not constrained with the intermediate-range Nuclear forces (iNf) agreement signed between the us and the erstwhile soviet union in 1987 to eliminate all their nuclear and conventional ground-launched missiles between the range of 500-5,500 km.
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