In 1994 they were persuaded by the West under the Budapest Memorandum to exchange those nukes for aid & security guarantees. FFWD to 2022, Ukraine paid the price for abandoning their deterrent. They pay it every day since then. Everyone around the world made the nukes=security connection based what happened and continues to happen in Ukraine.
China clearly sees the value of multiplying their arsenal since it’s obvious the West will tiptoe around nuclear armed nations (Russia being the obvious example).
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