On August 25, US President Donald Trump, communicating with journalists in the White House, said that during a meeting with the illegitimate president of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in Alaska, they discussed the restriction of nuclear weapons. He noted that China will allegedly be also attracted.
“We have the largest [объем ядерного оружия]. In Russia – the second largest [арсенал]. And China has the third. But China is far behind, but they will catch up with us in five years. We would like to conduct denuclearization, ”the US leader said.
According to Jiakun, the nuclear forces of China and the USA are fundamentally different in scale, and the nuclear policy and the strategic security environment of the two countries are also completely different. He emphasized that “the demand for China to join the tripartite negotiations of the United States, Russia and China on nuclear disarmament is neither reasonable nor real.”
The representative of the PRC Foreign Ministry emphasized that China adheres to a policy of non -replacement of nuclear weapons first, adheres to a defense nuclear strategy and “always holds its own nuclear forces at the minimum level necessary for national security, without entering into a pursuit of weapons with any country.” He added that the nuclear forces and nuclear policy of China are an important contribution to the world in the world.
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The Stockholm International Institute for the Research of Peace Problems (Sipri) published on June 16, 2025 an annual report, which refers to a dangerous strengthening of a nuclear threat. Among the nine states with nuclear weapons, and these are the USA, Russia, Great Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel, almost all last year continued intensive nuclear modernization programs, improving the existing weapons and adding new versions.
