Will there be war?
Howard W. French: China at War, 28 July 2016
China and Global Nuclear Order: From Estrangement to Active Engagement
by Nicola Horsburgh.
Oxford, 256 pp., £55, February 2015,978 0 19 870611 3 Show More
by Nicola Horsburgh.
Oxford, 256 pp., £55, February 2015,
China’s Military Power: Assessing Current and Future Capabilities
by Roger Cliff.
Cambridge, 378 pp., £21.99, September 2015,978 1 107 50295 6 Show More
by Roger Cliff.
Cambridge, 378 pp., £21.99, September 2015,
China’s Coming War with Asia
by Jonathan Holslag.
Polity, 176 pp., £14.99, March 2015,978 0 7456 8825 1 Show More
by Jonathan Holslag.
Polity, 176 pp., £14.99, March 2015,
“... the outcome of war is decided by the people, not … weapons,’ he said in the late 1940s, as Nicola Horsburgh recounts in China and Global Nuclear Order. Privately, though, atomic weapons were an early obsession of his, so much so that his eagerness to acquire an arsenal of his own drove a wedge between Beijing and Moscow and was one of the factors ... ”