Beijing calls for U.S. responsibility as the world’s largest nuclear power.
On Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian urged the United States to honor its nuclear disarmament commitments and to assume its historical responsibility as the world’s largest nuclear power.
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The remarks came in response to recent Pentagon accusations alleging a large-scale deployment of Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs.
Specifically, Lin rejected the U.S. War Department’s draft report that claims China has deployed more than 100 ICBMs in new silos located in the Inner Mongolia region and that Beijing is unwilling to engage in arms control negotiations.
The Chinese diplomat said he was unaware of the so-called U.S. “internal report” and described the U.S. War Department’s claims as a recurring tactic by Washington to justify the modernization and expansion of its own nuclear arsenal, undermining global strategic stability.
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“Such exaggerations are part of a consistent U.S. strategy to find excuses to accelerate the modernization of its nuclear forces,” Lin said, calling on the international community to clearly understand this dynamic.
He emphasized that, as the country with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, the United States bears the primary responsibility for undertaking drastic, substantial and verifiable reductions in its nuclear weapons, thereby creating the necessary conditions for other nuclear-armed states to join an effective global disarmament process.
In that context, Lin noted that the Chinese government recently released a white paper titled “China’s Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation in the New Era,” which comprehensively outlines Beijing’s nuclear policy and its position on arms control.
China consistently adheres to a no-first-use policy for nuclear weapons and maintains a strictly defensive nuclear strategy, Lin said and pointed out that China keeps its nuclear capabilities at the minimum level necessary to ensure national security and does not engage, and will not engage, in a nuclear arms race.
Lin added that China actively participates in review processes of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and in dialogue mechanisms of the P5 group, which brings together five nuclear-weapon states, maintaining open channels of communication with all parties on arms control and strategic stability issues.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran denounced the recent IAEA resolution.
It demands immediate information on uranium stockpiles and access to nuclear facilities. pic.twitter.com/TBFswwvYHQ
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Source: Global Times
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