A Chinese submarine
leaves Qingdao Port on April 22, 2009, in Qingdao of Shandong Province,
China. The Chinese regime may send nuclear-armed submarines for patrols
in the Pacific Ocean. (Guang Niu/Pool/Getty Images)
A Chinese state-run news outlets, Global Times, published a
response on May 29 to rumors that China would begin sending
nuclear-armed submarines for patrols in the Pacific Ocean. While it
notes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made no official
announcements on the patrols, it states that it’s time for the People
Liberation Army to send “nuclear submarines into the depth of the
Pacific Ocean for regular patrols.”
The report argues that the CCP has a “no first use” policy on nuclear
weapons, and because of this, its nuclear ambitions are benign. The
problem is that China’s “no first use” policy is little more than a
widely-parroted lie.
“With regard to ‘no first use,’ a careful look at the Chinese wording
of China’s ‘no first use’ policy reveals that it commits them to
nothing,” stated Mark Schneider, a senior analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy, during a congressional hearing in March 2012.
While the CCP’s policy suggests it would not use nuclear weapons
unless another country used them first, its actual policy is that it
could use nuclear weapons to counter regular military attacks as well.
Schneider noted a report from Kyodo News Agency, which obtained
classified Chinese military documents stating China “will adjust the
nuclear threat policy if a nuclear missile-possessing country carries
out a series of air strikes against key strategic targets in our country
with absolutely superior conventional weapons …”
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