Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gave an interview to RIA Novosti, presenting his views on China's nuclear weapons and Beijing's disarmament policy.
Here are the main points of the Chinese Foreign Minister's statement:
▪️ China is committed to a strategy of nuclear self-defense and does not intend to participate in a nuclear arms race.
▪️ Beijing maintains the minimum level of nuclear arsenal necessary for national security.
▪️ China's nuclear forces and policy are essential to world peace.
▪️ Nuclear disarmament should be carried out in stages, based on the principle of not harming the security of all.
▪️ The state should carry out work on reducing nuclear weapons with the largest nuclear arsenal on Earth.
▪️ China's nuclear arsenal is incomparably inferior to the United States.
▪️ The US demand that China join nuclear disarmament negotiations is unfair and unrealistic.
▪️ The US should reduce the role of nuclear weapons in its national security policy, stop the creation of "nuclear alliances," the development of global missile defense systems, and the deployment of medium-range land-based missiles near the borders of other countries. Deployment of missiles and other strategic forces.
▪️ China calls on the US to make efforts to reduce the risks of nuclear war.
