President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has announced his administration’s plans to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China.
Trump told reporters on Thursday that this would form the basis of his first meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Xi of China.
He said he hopes the US, under his watch, Russia and China, could agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half.
Trump fielded questions from journalists in the Oval Office on Thursday, where he decried the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in rebuilding the nation’s nuclear deterrent.
The President said he hopes to gain commitments from China and Russia to cut their own spending.
Trump said he sees China catching up with the US in their capability to exact nuclear devastation “within five or six years”.
He fears that peradventure these weapons were ever called to use, “that’s going to be probably oblivion.
During his first tenure as the President of America, Trump tried to bring China into nuclear arms reduction talks but it amounted to nothing.
It was the same period when the US and Russia were negotiating an extension of a pact known as New Start.
Russia suspended its participation in the treaty during the Biden administration
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