Abstract:

During the Cold War, China’s diplomacy always had a strong style of anti-hegemony. Standing on the side of the Third World countries, China opposed the nuclear monopoly of the United States and the Soviet Union, and held a resistant and critical attitude towards the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). With China’s rising international status after the end of the Cold War, disarmament and arms control have become an important platform for China’s interaction with other major powers. China has fully and deeply participated in the process of international disarmament and arms control, and attached great importance to international cooperation in preventing nuclear proliferation, promoting nuclear disarmament and the peaceful use of nuclear energy. China acceded to the NPT finally.

Key words: China, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), international nuclear non-proliferation regime, arms control