China News Service, Beijing, April 19 (Reporter Zhang Su Xing Chong) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin hosted a regular press conference on the 19th.
A reporter asked: Recently, the US State Department released the 2022 Arms Control Compliance Report, accusing China of failing to abide by its commitments to moratorium on nuclear tests and missile non-proliferation, and questioning China's implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention.
What is China's comment?
Wang Wenbin: China has taken note of the relevant report.
The United States concocts the so-called "Arms Control Compliance Report" every year, posing as a judge and a judge, making irresponsible remarks about other countries' arms control and non-proliferation policies and practices, and branding itself as a "model". Self-painting is ridiculous.
In fact, the United States has a poor record of compliance in the field of arms control and non-proliferation.
In recent years, the United States has adopted a pragmatic attitude of "use it if you use it, and discard it if you don't." The above position is repeated.
The United States provides nuclear submarine technology to Australia, a non-nuclear-weapon state, cooperates in the development of hypersonic weapons, and sells Tomahawk cruise missiles that can carry nuclear warheads to other countries, increasing the risk of nuclear proliferation and impacting the international nuclear non-proliferation system.
The United States exclusively blocked the negotiation of the verification protocol of the Biological Weapons Convention, and established biological laboratories and biological military activities around the world.
The United States is also the only party to the Chemical Weapons Convention that has not completed the destruction of its stockpile of chemical weapons.
What the US has done has seriously undermined the global strategic balance and stability, hindered the process of international arms control and disarmament, and has been widely condemned by the international community.
Instead of introspecting, the United States kept pouring dirty water on other countries. In essence, it was creating an excuse and looking for a scapegoat for itself to get rid of its treaty obligations.
In this regard, the international community, including people of insight in the United States, see it very clearly.
It needs to be pointed out that the accusations made by the US against China are purely based on falsehoods and non-existent.
China has always acted in a responsible manner, earnestly fulfilled its international obligations and commitments, firmly committed to multilateralism, and always upheld the international system with the United Nations at its core and the international order based on international law.
In recent years, China has actively participated in the review process of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, and the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The position paper on smart military applications has made important contributions to strengthening and improving the international arms control and non-proliferation system and maintaining world peace and security.
In terms of abiding by arms control treaties, the international community has its own public opinion on whether China and the United States have performed better or worse.
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