NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has expressed concerns about China’s development of nuclear weapons without transparency or regard for international laws and norms. Stoltenberg also acknowledged that China, as part of a broader movement of authoritarian nations including Russia, Iran, and North Korea, is destabilising the international community through nuclear proliferation. Reports suggest China will have 1,000 nuclear weapons by 2030 and 1,500 by 2035, and the regime currently fields more launchers for land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles than the United States. Stoltenberg called for NATO to engage with Beijing to negotiate arms control agreements, which would be of mutual benefit to both China and NATO. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman warned of the increased danger of nuclear weapons due to new technologies, such as artificial intelligence. She highlighted Beijing’s ambition to undermine and displace the international order, and affirmed the United States’ commitment to advanced arms control measures and nonproliferation.