China excludes participation in nuclear disarmament talks with us and Russia, as Trump suggested

Beijing China said on Wednesday that it would not participate in nuclear disarmament talks with the United States and Russia, after President Trump said he hoped to include Beijing in negotiations.

Mr. Trump said on Monday that the United States is trying to follow up on nuclear disarmament with both countries.

“I think nuclear disarmament is a big thing – it is a big goal. Russia is ready to do this and I think China will be ready to do so too,” Trump told reporters at the White House.

He added: “We cannot allow nuclear weapons to multiply. We have to stop nuclear weapons.”

Russia and the United States – the former Cold War competitors – possess approximately 90 % of the world’s nuclear weapons between them, however Moscow withdrew from the last arms control agreement With Washington in 2023.

When asked about the comments of Mr. Trump, Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing Jiakon said on Wednesday that “it is not reasonable or realistic” that you expect China to participate in the tripartite nuclear disarmament negotiations with the United States and Russia.

“China and the United States are not at the same level at all in terms of nuclear capabilities,” Qouh told reporters.

He said: “Countries with the largest nuclear arsenal must seriously fulfill their own responsibility for nuclear disarmament.”

Beijing says he prefers disarmament in principle, but he regularly rejected Washington’s calls to join the United States and Russian talks about reducing its nuclear arsenals.

According to the 2024 Institute of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the United States has 3,708 nuclear warheads and Russia 4,380, with the exception of retired warheads. China had 500, 90 more than in 2023. Behind it was France, with 290, and Britain with 225.

Beijing said on Wednesday that it maintains its nuclear forces “at the minimum required for national security and does not participate in the arms race with any country.”

Russia’s continuing War in Ukraine It has overwhelmed most of the other issues in the US -Russian bilateral relations for several years, and there was no big public talk about the ongoing negotiations on the nuclear weapons stocks of countries.

When Putin has officially canceled Russia’s approval of the comprehensive nuclear testing treaty, or CTBT, in 2023, he said that the action would “reflect” the pregnant woman taken by the United States, which fell at all but did not believe the treaty.

CTBT, approved in 1996, is prohibited by all nuclear bangs anywhere in the world, but not fully implemented. In addition to the United States, it was not officially ratified by China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran or Egypt.