1/ A short thread: New report by Michael Staack @HSUHamburg and me on "China's role in multilateral arms control" published by @FESonline. pdf here is.gd/5xBp7g 
2/ We ask on what arms control, disarmament and nonproliferaton issues engagement with China makes sense from German and EU perspective. Argue China’s involvement in multilateral, regional and bilateral agreements to limit military capacities is a value in and of itself.
3/ Report takes broad approach, looking beyond nuclear arms control. Assumes no longer possible to relegate China to the status of second-rate military power. Chinese involvement is crucial for preservation and further development of global #armscontrol architecture.
4/ Germany should take note of principles that guide Chinese arms control policies, in particular its efforts to attain strategic equality and its scepticism toward intrusive and governance approaches.
5/ Engagement should take as starting points topics in which China’s understanding of its role in arms control is still ambivalent: e.g. interest in non-proliferation vs. geopolitical power claims/economic interests; role of nuclear weapon state vs. rhetoric as non-aligned state.
6/ From this perspective regional confidence-building, verification, implementation of positive arms control commitments, nuclear risk reduction may be useful issues to begin engagement, which should be characterised by specificity, flexibility and willingness to engage.
7/7 German version of report here. Thanks to @StPantekoek and @FESonline for support!
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