{"id":28251,"date":"2020-06-22T19:12:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=28251"},"modified":"2020-06-22T19:12:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:42:59","slug":"us-invites-china-to-arms-control-talks-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=28251","title":{"rendered":"US invites China to arms control talks with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Washington and Moscow diplomats to meet in Austria on Monday and Tuesday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Politics\/International-relations\/US-invites-China-to-arms-control-talks-with-Russia\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington:<\/strong> U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Marshall Billingslea will travel to Austria on Monday and Tuesday to discuss &#8220;mutually agreed topics related to the future of arms control&#8221; with Russian Deputy Foreign Sergei Ryabkov, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The United States has extended an open invitation to the People&#8217;s Republic of China to join these discussions, and has made clear the need for all three countries to pursue arms control negotiations in good faith,&#8221; the State Department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fpsh-ex-ftnikkei-3937bb4%2Fimages%2F3%2F3%2F2%2F4%2F27804233-3-eng-GB%2FCropped-1592617555RTX7HHY3.JPG?source=nar-cms\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>A view of a test missile launch in California | Photo Credit: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for China to join the United States and Russia in talks on a nuclear arms control agreement to replace the 2010 New START accord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>New START, which imposes the last remaining limits on U.S. and Russian deployments of strategic nuclear arms to no more than 1,550 each, expires in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>China, estimated to have about 300 nuclear weapons, has repeatedly rejected Trump&#8217;s proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Billingslea had said last week that he had agreed with Ryabkov on a time and place for the negotiations in June.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington and Moscow diplomats to meet in Austria on Monday and Tuesday Reuters Washington: U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Marshall Billingslea will travel to Austria on Monday and Tuesday to discuss &#8220;mutually agreed topics related to the future of arms control&#8221; with Russian Deputy Foreign Sergei Ryabkov, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. &#8220;The United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}