Re:China Bans K-pop Music
by nl on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:57AM
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Currently China's nuclear strike doctrine is "no first strike". To be clear, this means that China won't launch first, even in the case of a warning of a nuclear strike[1].
This isn't the same as the US or Russian policy (since 1993), which both retain the policy option of preemtive strikes.
Tools like THAAD reduce China's ability to present a credible second-strike, which has led them to object extremely strenuously to it.
Partially because of THAAD it seems that China is considering changing their doctrine[2]. This would be unfortunate, and it seems likely that there are many in the Chinese government who would prefer not to have to do that. If they could get THAAD deployment in Korea cancelled it would be likely to strengthen their hand.
This isn't the same as the US or Russian policy (since 1993), which both retain the policy option of preemtive strikes.
Tools like THAAD reduce China's ability to present a credible second-strike, which has led them to object extremely strenuously to it.
Partially because of THAAD it seems that China is considering changing their doctrine[2]. This would be unfortunate, and it seems likely that there are many in the Chinese government who would prefer not to have to do that. If they could get THAAD deployment in Korea cancelled it would be likely to strengthen their hand.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_first_use
[2] http://thediplomat.com/2016/02/is-china-considering-a-high-r...