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Threats, assurances, and effective deterrence.

The debate today about fighting and winning a limited nuclear war, deploying tactical or battlefield nuclear weapons, has a long pedigree.

As competition between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) increases, understanding Chinese views of deterrence has become salient. Reaching this understanding is complicated because U.S.–China competition is markedly different from Cold War–era competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The U.S. and China are simultaneously economic partners and geopolitical competitors. Moreover, China’s views on deterrence do not align with America’s, so the limited parallels between Soviet and American approaches are less evident with regard to China.

At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee last month, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) asked a panel of arms control and deterrence experts how the U.S. might respond to the use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine.

By Thomas Friedman of The New York Times With his annexation of parts of Ukraine on Friday, Vladimir Putin has set in motion forces that are turning Russia into a giant North Korea. It will be a paranoid, angry, isolated state, but unlike North Korea, the Russian version will be spread over 11 t ...