China lehnt ein Treffen mit den USA zur nuklearen Rüstungskontrolle ab, sagt ein US-Beamter

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/01/2024/china-declines-to-meet-with-us-on-nuclear-arms-control-us-official-says?utm_campaign=semaforreddit

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  1. **From Semafor’s Mathias Hammer:**

    China has rejected US efforts to resume talks on arms control, following a November 2023 meeting on nuclear weapons that left US officials hopeful of continuing negotiations with their Chinese counterparts.

    “Unfortunately, the PRC has declined a follow-on meeting and has not provided a substantive response to our suggested options,” a State Department spokesperson told Semafor.

    The spokesperson said that the Biden administration had proposed “common-sense steps that addressed fundamental risks for conflict and uncontrolled escalation in the nuclear and space domains.” This included improving crisis communications with Beijing, instituting pre-launch notifications of strategic ballistic missile test launches, and efforts to lower tensions in space.

    Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, told Semafor that the US should “stop its megaphone diplomacy,” and called instead for “countries with the largest nuclear arsenals” to “significantly and substantially” reduce their own nuclear arsenals to further arms controls negotiations. The remarks did not single out the US but were a clear reference to Washington, which maintains an estimated 5,000 nuclear warheads — although Russia, an important China partner, holds around 5,580 of its own.

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  2. Not taking Chinas side here but why should they reduce nuclear arm progress if Russia and The US arnt? They won’t. Neither would the US

  3. China has said in the past it is perfectly happy to accept an agreement where the U.S. and China are limited to the same amount of warheads.

  4. China has a fraction of Russia and USA’s nuclear arsenal.

  6. Of course not. They gotta make sure they get as big and advanced an arsenal as possible before any negotiations happen. Why do folks think the Soviets waited so many years before doing it?

  7. China would have to be brain dead stupid to not increase their nuclear arsenal when US has been aggressively positionining their nuke delivery systems around China for the past 10 years.

  9. So new cold war, fighting communist china are we slowly moving into the fallout timeline? Is climate change the resource wars?

  10. lovely, i just *adore* nuclear apocalypse! i <3 humanity ❤️❤️💥☢️ so intelligent, so cooperative, we’re just the best <33

  11. Nuclear war is inevitable. Proliferation simply will not contain decommissioned warheads, and it’s just a matter of time. Either that, or a NK or Iran will get tired of using it as a bargaining chip.

  12. No shit, the world is getting tired of America trying to dictate how people should think and what countries should do. Especially when the country doing all the dictating has serious problems of its own.

  13. Ug, I’m tired of this. Let’s just rip the band-aid off and go at it

  14. us, Russia, and China not talking about nukes is kinda scary

  15. It appears PLA soldiers using rocket fuel for hot spot is the best nuclear deterrent one can have.

  16. Learning Chinese suddenly feels like a good hobby to pick up.

  17. Is China shooting a bomb just tons of peasants carrying it to its destination?

  18. Cowards that can issue threats generously but can’t sit down like adults to work through real issues.

  19. I was just walking around the Berkeley campus in some out of the way spots and noticed–as I didn’t 50 years ago–there’s an Oppenheimer Way. Which raises the question, What exactly IS “the Oppenheimer way”?

  20. Bezos building bomb shelter, shooting fallout show 🤣 everything is fine 👍

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