The virtual seminar will be held from 12:30-2:00 p.m. ET.
The Biden administration’s National Defense Strategy, which includes the Nuclear Posture Review and Missile Defense Review, is drawing close attention from Chinese policymakers and strategists. It “advances a strategy focused on the People’s Republic of China”, with China presented as a “pacing challenge”, and calls for the US to “act urgently to sustain and strengthen U.S. deterrence.” This presentation will discuss how the Chinese nuclear policy community has been reading and reacting to these US policy documents, and what the rising US-China strategic rivalry, and a more explicit nuclear weapons competition, mean for bilateral strategic stability and international security in an uncertain future.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Tong Zhao is a visiting researcher at the Program on Science & Global Security at Princeton University. He is also a senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, normally based in Beijing. His research focuses on strategic security issues, including nuclear weapons policy, arms control, nonproliferation, missile defense, hypersonic weapons, and China’s security and foreign policy.