Chinese hypersonic missiles make no difference to the strategic nuclear balance

Canada’s priority is therefore simple: since we cannot escape great power competition over our significant territory, and China betrays evidence of a tendency to miscalculate, Canada must make arms control in Asia a priority.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured. The problem is that China’s aggressive sabre-rattling may be a symptom of self-delusion that a small arsenal is sufficient to coerce its neighbours and deter U.S. intervention on the Asian littoral, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL

December 9, 2021

MONTREAL—China’s Oct. 18 denial that a hypersonic missile test in August was part of its broad nuclear weapons buildup, is symptomatic of the immaturity of China’s public diplomacy. Caught in a spel...

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