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The US and Russia have restarted talks about their nuclear arsenals after a break of more than a year and uncertainty over whether Donald Trump is interested in salvaging arms control in the last four months before elections.
Trump’s new US arms control envoy, Marshall Billingslea, is leading a delegation meeting the Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, in Vienna. Trump had repeatedly asked for Beijing to send a representative, but the Chinese government has refused.
The envoys made only guarded comments shortly before they met on Monday morning. “We’ll see,” Billingslea told Reuters when asked what he expected to come of the talks. Ryabkov was equally cautious, telling reporters soon afterwards: “Let’s see, let’s see. We are always very hopeful.”
Trump had been insistent that China join what has for decades been bilateral dialogue. China’s stockpile, estimated by the Federation of American Scientists at 320 warheads, is less than a twentieth the size of the US or Russian arsenal.
www.theguardian.com
China: Not yet, not yet, we're not ready!!!
Trump’s new US arms control envoy, Marshall Billingslea, is leading a delegation meeting the Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, in Vienna. Trump had repeatedly asked for Beijing to send a representative, but the Chinese government has refused.
The envoys made only guarded comments shortly before they met on Monday morning. “We’ll see,” Billingslea told Reuters when asked what he expected to come of the talks. Ryabkov was equally cautious, telling reporters soon afterwards: “Let’s see, let’s see. We are always very hopeful.”
Trump had been insistent that China join what has for decades been bilateral dialogue. China’s stockpile, estimated by the Federation of American Scientists at 320 warheads, is less than a twentieth the size of the US or Russian arsenal.
US-Russia nuclear envoys make guarded comments as talks begin in Vienna
Uncertainty surrounds talks, after Trump repeatedly tried to bring China to the table
www.theguardian.com
China: Not yet, not yet, we're not ready!!!
