In recent years, China has undertaken a vast nuclear force buildup.

In a new report, @BalzerKyle and @DAlexBlumenthal argue that China is attempting to use nuclear breakout to weaken the web of US alliances to its east and break out of its continental isolation. 🧵 China has grand ambitions to dominate the western Pacific in its attempt to displace the US as the world’s preeminent power.

But as a continental revisionist, it has galvanized a web of US-led coalitions seeking to prevent its use of brute force to do so.