8月22日，据中国外交部网站消息，外交部发言人毛宁于21日主持例行记者会时称，中国奉行不首先使用核武器政策，无意搞军备竞赛。

On August 22, according to the website of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, spokesperson Mao Ning stated at a regular press conference on August 21 that China adheres to a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons and has no intention of engaging in an arms race.

俄新社记者：《纽约时报》报道称，美国总统拜登3月批准了美国的秘密核战略，该战略在中国核武库增加背景下首次提到遏制中国的计划。外交部有何评论？

RIA Novosti: The New York Times reported that US President Biden approved in March a highly classified nuclear strategic plan for the United States that, for the first time, reorients America’s deterrent strategy to focus on China’s expansion in its nuclear arsenal. What’s the Ministry’s comment?

毛宁：中方对有关报道感到严重关切。事实充分证明，美国近年来不断翻炒所谓的“中国核威胁论”，不过是为自己推卸核裁军责任、扩张核武库、谋求压倒性战略优势寻找借口。

Mao Ning: China is gravely concerned over the report. As we have seen over the past few years, the US has called China a “nuclear threat” and used it as a convenient pretext to shirk its obligation of nuclear disarmament, expand its own nuclear arsenal, and seek absolute strategic predominance.

中国核武库与美国完全不在一个量级。中国奉行不首先使用核武器政策，坚持自卫防御核战略，始终将自身核力量维持在国家安全需要的最低水平，无意与任何国家搞军备竞赛。

The size of China’s nuclear arsenal is by no means on the same level with the US. China follows a policy of “no first use” of nuclear weapons and a nuclear strategy that focuses on self-defense, and always keeps its nuclear capabilities at the minimum level required by national security. We have no intention to engage in any form of arms race with other countries.

反观拥有最大、最先进核武库的美国，顽固坚持以首先使用核武器为基础的核威慑政策，持续投入巨资升级“三位一体”核力量，并公然为别国量身定制核威慑战略。美国才是全球最大的核威胁、战略风险的制造者。中方敦促美方切实履行核裁军特殊、优先责任，进一步大幅、实质削减核武库，停止“核共享”、“延伸威慑”、扩大“核联盟”等破坏全球和地区和平稳定的消极举动。

In contrast, the US sits on the largest and most advanced nuclear arsenal in the world. Even so, it clings to a first-use nuclear deterrence policy, and has invested heavily to upgrade its nuclear triad and blatantly devised nuclear deterrence strategies against others. It is the US who is the primary source of nuclear threats and strategic risks in the world. China urges the US to fulfill its special and primary obligation of nuclear disarmament by further making drastic and substantive cuts to its nuclear arsenal, and stopping nuclear sharing, extended deterrence, expanding nuclear alliance, and other negative moves that undermine global and regional peace and stability.