The Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded today (November 7) to Trump's request for China to join the U.S.-Russia-China tripartite nuclear arms control talks: "unfair, unreasonable, and unfeasible."
The Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning stated at the regular press conference today: "China's nuclear forces are not in the same category as those of the United States and Russia. It is currently unfair, unreasonable, and unfeasible to require China to join nuclear arms control negotiations. The United States, as the country with the largest nuclear arsenal, should truly fulfill its special and primary responsibility for nuclear disarmament, further significantly and substantially reduce its nuclear arsenal, and create conditions for achieving comprehensive and thorough nuclear disarmament." (Full text is shown in Figure 2)
[Witty] A few comments: Trump's proposal for China to join the U.S.-Russia-China tripartite nuclear arms control talks is absurd. The U.S. and Russia, as nuclear powers with more than 5,000 nuclear warheads, have massive nuclear forces and complex historical issues. China's nuclear forces have always adhered to a defensive nuclear strategy, and their quantity is far from being comparable to that of the U.S. and Russia, and their development process has been steady and orderly. In this context, forcing China to get involved is clearly unfair, unreasonable, and unfeasible. As the world's largest nuclear arsenal holder, the United States should take the lead, truly fulfill its special and primary responsibility for nuclear disarmament, and significantly cut its nuclear arsenal. Instead of trying to shift the responsibility and making China "take the blame," such actions reveal its hegemonic thinking and double standards, which are destined to fail.
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