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News | Dec. 11, 2025

The Challenge of a Rising, Nuclear-Armed China

By Dr. Kathleen Ellis National Institute for Public Policy

This National Institute for Public Policy article examines several specific developments in China’s nuclear arsenal, which, coupled with Beijing’s aggressive foreign policy, hold sobering implications for U.S. national security interests.

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Dr. Kathleen Ellis is Senior Policy Fellow with National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies, Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction.