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   No first use

   China appears to have backpedaled over its no first use pledge when, in 2005, Chinese Major General Zhu Chenghu, suggested that China would use nuclear weapons if it were attacked with American high-tech military forces. ... In March 2002, British defence secretary Geoff Hoon stated that the UK was prepared to use nuclear weapons against rogue states such as Iraq if they ever used "weapons of mass destruction" against British troops in the field.
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   Modernization of the People's Liberation Army

   Foreign technology was used selectively to upgrade weapons. ... China repeatedly has vowed never to use nuclear weapons first, but it has promised retaliation against a nuclear attack.
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   War in Darfur

   Human Rights First claimed that over 90% of the light weapons currently being imported by Sudan and used in the conflict are from China; however, according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)'s "Arms Transfers Data for 2007", in 2003–2007, Sudan received 87 per cent of its major conventional weapons from Russia and 8 per cent from China.
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   Jian

   Yoshi, an antagonist appearing in the anime-only Bount arc of Bleach, fights opponents using a combination weapon composed of a jian and battle fan joined at their bases by a chain. ... Weapons of China
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   Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)

   Both Korea and China had already been using firearms similar to the Portuguese arquebus, but were older models. ... The Chinese infantry used a variety of weapons, as they had to deal with many different environments throughout their empire, including bows (mainly crossbows), swords (also for its cavalry), muskets, smoke bombs and hand grenades.
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   China Room

   The room is primarily used by the First Lady for teas, meetings, and smaller receptions. ... The Carters favored using pieces of the Lincoln's amaranth purple rimmed china for special occasions.
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   People's Republic of China and weapons of mass destruction

   China does not have either biological or chemical weapons, having acceded to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1984, and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1997. ... In 2005, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a white paper stating that the government would not be the first to use nuclear weapons at any time and under any circumstances.
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   Fight Science

   Lack of cultural diversity: All the weapons used in tests were from China, Japan or the Philippines.
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   Axis leaders of World War II

   During his mandate, the Army committed the Nanking massacre and regularly used chemical weapons in China.
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    Weapon of mass destruction

    For a period of several months in the winter of 2002-2003, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz frequently used the term "weapons of mass terror," apparently also recognizing the distinction between the psychological and the physical effects of many things currently falling into the WMD category. ... PR China

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• No first use,
• Modernization of the People's Liberation Army,
• War in Darfur,
• Jian,
• Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598),
• China Room,
• People's Republic of China and weapons of mass destruction,
• Fight Science,
• Axis leaders of World War II,
• Weapon of mass destruction