Xinhua News Agency, United Nations, August 5. The Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is being held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

In his speech on the 4th, the representative of the United States falsely claimed that China is accelerating the expansion of its nuclear arsenal, and refused to have a substantive dialogue with the United States on the issue of nuclear arms control.

In response to the groundless accusations by the US, Chinese representative Ding Tongbing exercised the right of reply and resolutely refuted it.

  Ding Tongbing said that China firmly opposes and firmly rejects the groundless accusations made by the US on China's nuclear policy.

The accusations by the US will not change the fact that, as a nuclear superpower, the US's huge nuclear arsenal is still threatening global and regional security.

Not only that, the US has also adopted a series of negative policies and actions that systematically undermine global and regional strategic balance and stability.

  He said that the Biden administration has reneged on its campaign promise and made it clear that it will continue the policy of first use of nuclear weapons, which goes against the expectations of the international community.

The US has spent trillions of dollars to upgrade its "trinity" nuclear force, vigorously develop new types of nuclear weapons and low-yield nuclear weapons, and lower the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons.

The United States continues to push forward the deployment of the global anti-missile system and seeks to deploy land-based intermediate-range missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

The US has so far not ratified the three nuclear-free zone treaties in the South Pacific, Central Asia and Africa, and has not provided legally binding security assurances to the above-mentioned nuclear-free zone countries.

The United States has deployed nuclear weapons abroad to enhance the so-called extended deterrence and to spread nuclear submarines using weapons-grade nuclear materials to non-nuclear-weapon countries, thereby promoting the establishment of camp confrontation and confrontation with a very Cold War flavor.

  Ding Tongbing pointed out that China has always limited the scale of its nuclear force to the minimum required to maintain national security, and has not participated in the nuclear arms race in the past and will not participate in the future.

The purpose of China's possession of nuclear weapons is to deter other countries from using or threatening to use nuclear weapons against China.

As long as any country does not use nuclear weapons against China, it should not regard China's nuclear force as a threat, nor should it feel such a threat.

  Ding Tongbing emphasized that smearing China will not make the United States clean, and accusing China will not make the United States innocent.

China urges the U.S. to follow the international consensus, earnestly assume its special and priority responsibility for nuclear disarmament, and continue to further substantially and substantially reduce its nuclear arsenal in a verifiable, irreversible and legally binding manner.

Only in this way can the United States regain the trust of the international community.