“In the long-term interest of global strategic stability, China hopes the U.S. will resume strategic stability dialogue with Russia to discuss the way forward after the New START expires,”
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lin Jian stated today “This, he added, “is also what the world hopes to see.”
Russia’s Ria Novosti agency had asked Lin for China’s response to the expiration of the treaty, and to President Trump’s talk yesterday of “developing a new, improved strategic arms agreement with Russia … instead of extending the New START Treaty.” Lin reported on the latter that China did not have any specifics on what Trump is proposing.
The day before, Spokesman Lin had called the treaty’s expiration “truly regrettable”, adding that “the treaty is vital to global strategic stability, and there is widespread concern over the impact on the international nuclear arms control system and global nuclear order after the treaty expires.”
