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    Nuclear China: A Veiled Secret: A Veiled Secret

    By Dr Monika Chansoria

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    China has undergone a protracted stint in the nuclear domain from the time when Mao Zedong derided the bomb as a “paper tiger” in 1946, to the development of modern nuclear weapons and missiles, making it only obligatory to chronicle the policy changes within China that steered the leadership towards grasping that nuclear weapons will fundamentally redefine China’s quest for security. The Chinese leadership’s nationalistic ideology and concepts of force and diplomacy shaped its perceptions of the enduring dangers that confronted China. Initially, Beijing’s political corridors dismissed the dangers of a nuclear war while reaffirming the principles of a “people’s war”, however, later, witnessed Mao recasting the struggle into one with a military-technical emphasis that relied on assured nuclear retaliation to ensure effective deterrence.
    With China seeing a massive amount of political guanxi being expended, it comprehended that nuclear weapons shall play a fundamental role in its long-term aspirations to augment its position and role in global politics. Given that nuclear arsenals are increasingly viewed as a critical assurance of military supremacy and security, this book distils the evolving trends in China’s nuclear doctrine and strategy, and chronicles the journey of a nuclear China, assessing all pertaining facets, including a detailed analysis of the delivery vectors that focus on a high degree of mobility of assets, particularly the missiles and warheads, separately as well as complete weapon systems.
    During the 1960s, Beijing proceeded with its nuclear weapons programme mindful that it was vulnerable to decapitation, and this book’s narrative underscores that China seeks to improve the survivability and mobility of its existing strategic nuclear forces through a robust nuclear modernisation campaign, including nuclear weapon miniaturisation technology. This, subsequently, leads onto a pressing debate on whether China would aspire to modify, qualitatively and quantitatively, its nuclear posture without necessarily deposing its brand of nuclear minimalism, which has been the core of its nuclear strategy, at least for public consumption.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKW Publishers
    Release dateJul 15, 2014
    ISBN9789385714368
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    Dr Monika Chansoria

    Dr. Monika Chansoria is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi and holds a Post-Doctorate in International Relations from the French Foundation of Humanities and Sciences, Paris, in 2007-08. Besides, she has been a recipient of various prestigious international academic fellowships including the 2012 Senior Visiting Fellowship by the Cooperative Monitoring Centre, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA, and the Japanese Global Chair of Excellence Fellowship at the Hokkaido University, Japan. Dr. Chansoria also holds the 2010 French Senior Fellowship granted by the Foundation of Humanities and Sciences, Paris, as a Visiting Professor and Associate Director of Studies. She has authored several books including China: Military Modernisation and Strategy (2011); Chinese WMD Proliferation in Asia: US Response (2009); and co-authored Afghanistan: India’s Strategic Stakes (2010). She regularly participates in various Track II diplomatic dialogues in India and abroad in addition to writing a regular column on international politics and strategic affairs for The Sunday Guardian newspaper.

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