US INVITES CHINA TO ARMS CONTROL TALKS

Published by Olamide on July 9th, 2020.

US INVITES CHINA TO ARMS CONTROL TALKS

The United States on Thursday again invited China to talks on arms control, saying it saw an opening with Beijing on three-way negotiations with Russia despite intense disagreements.

President Donald Trump’s administration has been demanding that a rising China take part in talks on a successor to the New START treaty, which caps the nuclear warheads of Cold War-era superpowers the United States and Russia. China did not join initial US-Russia talks last month in Vienna on the treaty, which expires in February.

But China on Wednesday said it was willing to participate in arms control negotiations with the United States with the major caveat that Washington reduce its arsenal to the much smaller size of Beijing.

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