The United States and China will meet for the first time in years to discuss nuclear arms control.
Next week, China and the United States will discuss nuclear arms control. The Wall Street Journal reports that these will be the first such negotiations since President Barack Obama’s administration.
Gun control
China’s Foreign Ministry said after Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Washington that the two countries will “hold consultations on arms control and non-proliferation” in the coming days.
According to the publication, the arms negotiations will be led by Mallory Stewart, a senior Foreign Ministry official, and Sun Xiaobo, head of the arms control department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Washington-based Arms Control Association, said the arms talks will likely focus on promoting greater transparency about each country’s nuclear doctrines and more effective reporting channels.
– However, I don’t think we can expect a breakthrough in the near future. It will take some time, Kimball said.
A day earlier, the media reported that the world’s largest nuclear powers – the US, Russia and China – are actively preparing infrastructure to conduct real nuclear tests, which have been banned by international agreements for about thirty years.
The meeting of Chinese and US officials comes in the context of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s signing of a bill to nullify the ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Russia is changing its rhetoric
Meanwhile, the media reports that Russia has decided to change its rhetoric on the possibility of using nuclear weapons. When the Russian president first raised the possibility of a limited nuclear strike on Ukraine and promised to “use all available means” to defend Russia’s achievements, it caused tension among Western countries, and even Chinese leader Xi Jinping personally warned Putin against the use of nuclear weapons.
Last fall, Putin admitted that using tactical nuclear weapons “makes no political or military sense” and has largely stopped talking about his nuclear arsenal.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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