China News Service, Beijing, May 20 (Reporter Li Jingze and Huang Yuqin) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin hosted a regular press conference on May 20.
A reporter asked: According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, the joint statement to be released after the Japan-US talks on the 23rd showed that the two sides are coordinating and calling on China to increase the transparency of its nuclear forces and step up nuclear disarmament.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who was born in Hiroshima, will propose a framework for cooperation "towards a world free of nuclear weapons."
The statement is also expected to be written in response to the threat to Japan, and the United States will expand its nuclear safeguards to Japan.
What is China's comment?
Wang Wenbin: I have noticed relevant reports.
The United States has the largest and most advanced nuclear arsenal in the world. Not only does the United States fail to fulfill its nuclear disarmament obligations, but it also invests huge sums of money to upgrade its "trinity" nuclear force, develop low-yield nuclear weapons, lower the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, and continue to promote the deployment of global countermeasures. It seeks to deploy land-based intermediate missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and promotes the construction of a military "small circle" with a strong Cold War flavor by selling nuclear submarines and strengthening "nuclear umbrellas".
Such moves by the US seriously damage global strategic stability, undermine international peace and security, and seriously affect the process of nuclear disarmament.
If the US really cares about the issue of nuclear arms control, it should, in accordance with UN documents and international consensus, earnestly assume the special and priority responsibility for nuclear disarmament, and continue to further substantially and substantially reduce its nuclear weapons in a verifiable, irreversible and legally binding manner. It will make due contributions to maintaining global and regional strategic balance and stability.
Japan has long regarded itself as a victim of nuclear weapons and talked about promoting the realization of a world free of nuclear weapons. At the same time, Japan enjoys the "nuclear umbrella" of the United States and opposes and obstructs the United States from giving up its policy of first use of nuclear weapons.
Japan's position on nuclear disarmament is hypocritical and contradictory.
Recently, some Japanese politicians have made false promises of "nuclear sharing" with the United States, trying to break through the three non-nuclear principles they promised and introduce nuclear weapons from the United States.
China and the international community are seriously concerned about this. Japan should be cautious in its words and deeds, earnestly fulfill its obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and take a responsible attitude in maintaining regional peace and stability.
I would like to stress that China has always firmly pursued the nuclear strategy of self-defense and has always maintained the scale of its nuclear force at the minimum level required for national security.
China has always adhered to the no-first-use policy of nuclear weapons.
As long as any country does not use nuclear weapons against China, there is no need to worry about China's nuclear weapons. This is the most practical transparency.
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