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You can’t understand China’s nuclear ambitions without understanding a century of collective psychological injury. Beijing’s memory is long, and it shapes everything at the negotiating table. warontherocks.com/rethinking-str…

warontherocks.com Rethinking Strategic Stability with China: From Coercion to Constructivism Every administration since the Cold War has been looking for a significant foreign policy breakthrough with China. Spanning containment and normalization

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Washington and Beijing both say a human will make any decision to use nuclear weapons. That human will be reading warnings, intelligence, and options that AI may have shaped first. warontherocks.com/can-washington…

warontherocks.com Can Washington and China Build Confidence Around AI and Stability? In the lead-up to General Secretary Xi Jinping’s September 2026 visit to the White House to discuss, among other topics, AI, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott

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Even when Washington supplies the money and the weapons, it keeps losing the ability to shape how wars end. (Members Only) warontherocks.com/2026/11/why-ar…

warontherocks.com Why Are Wars Increasingly Difficult to End? The number of armed conflicts has increased in recent years, and researchers have warned that many wars are lasting longer and have become more difficult

War on the Rocks @WarOnTheRocks 3h

Pulling out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty pushed Russia to develop weapons that could slip past U.S. defenses. Golden Dome could drive Russia and China even further. warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/th…

warontherocks.com The Golden Dome Proposal is Destabilizing and Dangerous Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a two-part series exploring the Golden Dome for America proposal. Please also read the first, “Golden Dome Is

War on the Rocks @WarOnTheRocks 4h

Russia has rehearsed it. China has tested a cutter. Who repairs the internet in wartime? warontherocks.com/who-repairs-th…

warontherocks.com Who Repairs the Internet in Wartime? In spring 2026, Britain, Norway, and the United States tracked and disrupted a covert Arctic exercise off the coast of Norway involving Russian deep-sea