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Biden’s Shaky Search for Stability Can U.S. President Joe Biden’s nuclear posture provide an opportunity to reshape U.S.-China strategic stability? This puzzle has been haunting numerous scholars and pundits. Now its once positive outlook — even likelihood — faces a downward slog. While China is not yet a military peer of the United States, the country’s modernization of its armed services has progressed sufficiently to resonate with the U.S. and its allies. Discourse that prioritizes strategic competition with China prevails in Washington, accompanied by a fraught effort aimed at deterrence of the People’s Republic in the U.S. defense agenda. The...
