RT International No agreement will be made without China, the American secretary of state has said
Any future nuclear arms control agreement must include China alongside the US and Russia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said. He stated that Washington will continue pressing for trilateral talks with Beijing and Moscow.
The New START treaty, the last remaining nuclear pact between Washington and Moscow, expired earlier this month.
“We think ultimately, in the 21st century, for there to be a true arms control agreement it has to involve China,” Rubio told reporters on Wednesday. “The president strongly believes that for any nuclear agreement in the 21st century to be legitimate, it has to involve these three countries.”
Rubio acknowledged that Beijing’s nuclear arsenal is far smaller than those of Russia and the US, but dismissed this as “irrelevant.” He argued that China “certainly has the capacity to catch up and are well on their way to doing so.”
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