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Mar 7, 2025 | 
blog.ucs.org | Gregory Kulacki |Robert S. Rust |David Watkins
China’s top diplomat repeatedly told US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan his government does not believe the United States and China are engaged in a struggle for global supremacy. It was one of the most important issues—second only to Taiwan—that Foreign Minister Wang Yi raised in August during the latest in a series of secretive backchannel talks with Sullivan that began last year.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
blog.ucsusa.org | Gregory Kulacki
During a recent presentation on whether the world is “destined for a Cold War in the 21st century,” one of the panelists drew attention to a sentence from an authoritative Chinese document that said China decided to “accelerate the development of strategic deterrent capabilities.” A colleague walked away from the presentation with the impression “strategic deterrent capabilities” refered to nuclear weapons. That’s highly unlikely.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
everand.com | Gregory Kulacki
During a recent presentation on whether the world is “destined for a Cold War in the 21st century,” one of the panelists drew attention to a sentence from an authoritative Chinese document that said China decided to “accelerate the development of strategic deterrent capabilities.” A colleague walked away from the presentation with the impression “strategic deterrent capabilities” refered to nuclear weapons. That’s highly unlikely.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
blog.ucsusa.org | Gregory Kulacki
China’s top diplomat repeatedly told US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan his government does not believe the United States and China are engaged in a struggle for global supremacy. It was one of the most important issues—second only to Taiwan—that Foreign Minister Wang Yi raised in August during the latest in a series of secretive backchannel talks with Sullivan that began last year.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
everand.com | Gregory Kulacki
China’s top diplomat repeatedly told US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan his government does not believe the United States and China are engaged in a struggle for global supremacy. It was one of the most important issues—second only to Taiwan—that Foreign Minister Wang Yi raised in August during the latest in a series of secretive backchannel talks with Sullivan that began last year.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
blog.ucsusa.org | Gregory Kulacki
In response to a question during a regular press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian said, “the Chinese side decided to hold off discussion with the US on a new round of consultations on arms control and non-proliferation.” Reuters described the decision as “a protest of Washington’s arms sales to the democratically governed island of Taiwan.” But Lin’s full explanation, and the disappointing outcome of governmental and nongovernmental talks between US and Chinese arms...
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
blog.ucsusa.org | Gregory Kulacki
This blog was co-authored with UCS China analyst Robert Rust. Last month UCS published a critique of a New York Times article that claimed Chinese military strategists, “are looking to nuclear weapons as not only a defensive shield, but as a potential sword — to intimidate and subjugate adversaries.” We examined the evidence and found it did not support that claim.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Gregory Kulacki |François Diaz-Maurin
The world’s third largest movie market was curiously excluded from participating in the social, cultural, and economic excitement surrounding this award season’s most acclaimed product: director Christopher Nolan’s biographical film about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. That ended when Universal Pictures finally decided to release Oppenheimer to theaters in Japan. The film’s local distributors declined requests for comment on the unusually long delay.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
blog.ucsusa.org | Gregory Kulacki
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a tragedy where the private life of the protagonist is weaponized in a war over public policy. In the film this was depicted as a conflict between two individuals, Lewis Strauss, a bureaucrat who fought to win the nuclear arms race, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, a scientist who foresaw that was not possible.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
blog.ucsusa.org | Gregory Kulacki
US policy-makers wonder why China is enlarging its nuclear arsenal. How they answer that question will influence US government decisions about the future size and readiness of US nuclear forces. There’s little doubt China is constructing hundreds of new missile silos. Satellite images provide compelling evidence we can evaluate objectively. Why they are constructing them is more difficult to know.
