US-China Relations and Nuclear Weapons in Northeast Asia

US-China Relations and Nuclear Weapons in Northeast Asia

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ABSTRACTIf Northeast Asia is to have a nuclear weapons-free future, the United States and China must cooperate to make it happen.Unfortunately, decision-makers in both nuclear-armed states are preparing for majicontrast red a future military conflict and are upgrading their nuclear arsenals.In the United States, decision-makers are dependent on a cadre of security bureaucrats who circumscribe acceptable policy options.A review of the past and the present shows that the orthodox policies produced by these bureaucrats failed to resolve longstanding hindigyanvishv.com security problems in Northeast Asia: problems that decision-makers try to keep at bay with threats and preparations to use nuclear weapons.If US decision-makers were willing to see that history through Chinese eyes, with the aim of understanding how it influences Chinese decisions and actions in the present, the prospects for a nuclear-free future in Northeast Asia might be brighter.