128 UNDERSTANDING CHINESE NUCLEAR THINKING dialogues on strategic stability
with China. 1 Te Quadrennial Defense Review 2014, also released by the US Department of …

China and the United States view each other as potential adversaries with mixed motives
and divergent value systems, yet both can benefit from cooperation to reduce the risk of war …

1 Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation Currently, the US-China mutual trust is eroding
due to a series of misperceptions, miscalculations and suspicions between China and the …

With intensifying US–China strategic rivalry in Asia, an increasingly salient issue of bilateral
strategic stability is drawing growing attention from scholars and policy analysts alike. This …

In China, everything from its “peaceful rise”(heping jueqi) to “harmonious society”(hexie
shehui) has been predicated on the necessity of maintaining stability to ensure continued …

Will China's nuclear modernization threaten US security? Will it destabilize East Asia,
creating new strategic problems for US allies and partners? And will it make conventional …

The adjustment and development of US strategic weapons over the past few years has
brought new uncertainties to China-US strategic stability. One aspect of this uncertainty is …

Dialogue in various formats—bilateral, trilateral, and multilateral—will not eliminate some
fundamentally conflicting views and the misalignment of perceived national interests among …

BACKGROUND The fifth annual session of the US-China Strategic Dialogue was held in
Honolulu, HI from May 2 to 4, 2010. The Dialogue is a track II conference; thus, it is formally …

China's nuclear arsenal has long been an enigma. It is a small force, based almost
exclusively on land-based ballistic missiles, maintained at a low level of alert and married to …