ChineseTiger1986
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We have a "No First Use" policy (we cannot nuke or make a threat to nuke other countries first), so any nuking done by China is only possible in "retaliation" against a nuclear or nuclear equivalent attack on us.
Whereas America and Russia have "First strike" policies. It would be irresponsible if we did not take this into consideration, considering that both have threatened to nuke us before, America during the Korean War and Russia during the Sino-Soviet split.
We have to make sure that no one will be able to "make good" on these threats, by having an HGV arsenal of sufficient power to ensure unacceptable retaliation against anyone who could possibly commit a first strike on us.
The HGV is not part of the NFU policy, since it didn't even exist when the NFU policy was made. So China can use it first without breaching the NFU promise.
China did openly test both HGV and ABM on purpose, it is to keep the US on check.
Since the USN has 14 Ohio class SSBNs armed with 24 Trident II SLBMs each, nobody can catch up this firepower in a short period. However, China has found out an efficient trick to turn the US advantage into the disadvantage.