Includes index.

The U.S.-Chinese Relationship and China as a Twenty-first Century Strategic Power / James M. Smith and Paul J. Bolt -- China's "Nested" Worldview / Andrew Scobell -- China's Nuclear Doctrine and Deterrence Concept / Christopher P. Twomey -- Strategic Stability and the Impact of China's Modernizing Strategic Strike Forces / Sugio Takahashi -- China's Strategic Systems and Programs / Hans M. Kristensen -- China's Regional Nuclear Capability, Non-Nuclear Strategic Systems, and Integration of Concepts and Operations / Phillip C. Saunders and David C. Logan -- Organization of China's Strategic Forces / Bates Gill -- China on Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Strategic Stability / Nancy W. Gallagher -- China's Strategic Future / Brad Roberts

"This volume brings together an international group of distinguished scholars to provide a fresh assessment of China's strategic military capabilities, doctrines, and perceptions in light of rapidly advancing technologies, an expanding and modernizing nuclear arsenal, and increased great-power competition with the United States. China's strategic weapons are its expanding nuclear arsenal and emerging conventional weapons systems such as hypersonic missiles and anti-satellite missiles. China's strategic arsenal is important because of how it affects the dynamics of US-China relations and the relationship between China and its neighbors. Without a doubt China's strategic arsenal is growing in size and sophistication, but this book also examines key uncertainties. Will China's new capabilities and confidence lead it to be more assertive or take more risks? Will China's nuclear traditions (i.e., no first use) change as the strategic balance improves? Will China's approach to military competition in the domains of cyberspace and outer space be guided by a notion of strategic stability or not? Will there be a strategic arms race with the United States? The goal of this book is to update our understanding of these issues and to make predictions about how these dynamics may play out"-- Provided by publisher.