[mlindner]

> China has an explicit No First Use policy.

China's "policies" last as long as their dictator cares to keep them. At the first sign of change that policy will disappear as well.

Also it's a clear lie as in a fictional world where China mainland was invaded and China was losing the war, it's rather absurd to think they would just sit on their nuclear weapons and not use them.

The US also wouldn't use them in a first strike, but drawdowns have to happen on both sides.

> You might say that China has a secret huge arsenal. The US might have comparable things!

The US cannot. That's the entire point of international inspections. China would have to allow US inspections of their arsenal like is done to the US.