WORLD NEWS: "Beijing Defends Buildup Of Its Nuclear Arsenal," by Gordon Fairclough, Wall Street Journal, 23 April 2010.

Beijing continues to modernize is nuclear arsenal, saying it needs weapons capable of retaliating against any level of nuclear attack.

Sounds reasonable to me.

The latest official word from the military side of the house there reiterates a no-first-use policy.

As second-strike arsenals go, China's is tiny compared to ours or Russia's, so--again--the argument offered is more than reasonable.