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81. Assassin's Mace: How an Ancient Saying Explains China's Current Military Strategy

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The Proximity Paradox and the Safety of Violence

China has had nuclear weapons since the sixties October 16th, 1964. They tested their first atomic device early on in China's nuclear history. Mao Zedong described them famously as a paper tiger. And they learned a lot of lessons from other people's wars,. like especially the Gulf War in 1991. The next 15 years, China's going to go ham and build like 1000 new weapons.

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