The United States has legitimate nuclear concerns with China
A decisive move would be for Washington to publicly acknowledge what has long been the case: that China has a credible deterrent and that the U.S. and China are mutually vulnerable.
David Santoro is Vice President and Director for Nuclear Policy at the Pacific Forum. He has been involved in track-1.5 and track-2 US-China strategic nuclear dialogues and is currently completing an edited volume on the US-China nuclear relationship in the multipolar context.
A decisive move would be for Washington to publicly acknowledge what has long been the case: that China has a credible deterrent and that the U.S. and China are mutually vulnerable.