A senior official from China called US pressure to join nuclear arms talks with Russia a ploy to avoid signing a new deal and said China would gladly participate if the US would agree to parity among all three nations. 9News
and said China would gladly participate if the US would agree to parity among all three nations.
"I can assure you that if the US says that they are ready to come down to the Chinese level, China will be happy to participate the next day," Fu Cong, the director general of the Foreign Ministry's arms control department, said today.Fu Cong, director general of the Depatment of Arms Control of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks to media at a press briefing on nuclear arms talks in Beijing on Wednesday, July 8, 2020.
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