China on Wednesday urged the United States to earnestly fulfil its special duties on nuclear disarmament and further cut its large nuclear arsenal.
“As the country with the world’s largest and most advanced nuclear arsenal, the United States should earnestly fulfill its special duties on nuclear disarmament, respond to Russia’s call for extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, and further cut its large nuclear arsenal, so as to create conditions for other nuclear countries to join the multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations,” spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a press briefing.
Hua made the remarks in response to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s remarks at a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that delivery systems have evolved beyond the missiles, bombers and submarines, and other parties such as China needed to be brought in to a wider arms control…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
