[time0ut]

China has a strong no first use policy, at least publicly. Luckily, it is unlikely they'd attack a carrier battle group with nuclear weapons.

They also have a strategy of assured retaliation and maintain a countervalue stance. Hopefully, we won't have to find out whether or not they will follow through with it...

[CRConrad]

> China has a strong no first use policy, at least publicly.

That statement isn't worth the electrons we're wasting on displaying it. Authoritarian regimes have no policies. Their "policy" every day is what the autocrat feels like when he wakes up, and if he's constipated during his morning dump the "policy" can change before breakfast.

[philliphaydon]

> China has a strong no first use policy, at least publicly. Luckily, it is unlikely they'd attack a carrier battle group with nuclear weapons.

Yeah we know that's false now, it's just something they claimed and will never uphold, after they threatened to obliterate Japan.

[time0ut]

I missed this news. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. This is terrifying and probably one of the most significant changes in (public) nuclear policy in years.