Xinhua News Agency, United Nations, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs Li Song made a keynote speech at the 10th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (hereinafter referred to as the Treaty) on the 8th, comprehensively expounding China's position on nuclear non-proliferation. The position advocates that it firmly opposes the cooperation between the United States, Britain and Australia on nuclear-powered submarines, and warns Japan and related countries not to replicate "nuclear sharing" in the Asia-Pacific region.
Li Song said that the Treaty is the cornerstone of the international non-proliferation system.
Any act of using nuclear proliferation to serve narrow geopolitical self-interest runs counter to the original purpose of the Treaty on non-proliferation and seriously undermines the effectiveness and authority of the Treaty.
The United States engages in bloc politics and camp confrontation, piecing together exclusive "small circles" and "small groups" to make waves in the Asia-Pacific region, posing new impacts and challenges to the international nuclear non-proliferation system.
The US-UK-Australia nuclear submarine cooperation and the "nuclear sharing" argument in the Asia-Pacific region are two major new issues facing the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.
Li Song emphasized that the US-UK-Australia nuclear submarine cooperation is unprecedented and is textbook-level nuclear proliferation.
The geostrategic intention of the Three Kingdoms is "Sima Zhao's heart is known to all."
The United States and the United Kingdom, as depositors of the Treaty and as nuclear-weapon states, brazenly decided to transfer nuclear submarine power reactors and tons of weapons-grade high-enriched uranium to non-nuclear-weapon states, posing a serious proliferation risk and fully exposing the "double standards" of the two countries. .
The nuclear submarine cooperation of the three countries threatens the security of Asia-Pacific countries, provokes camp confrontation, stimulates the arms race, and causes serious damage to the South Pacific Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone and the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone. It is a blatant violation of the purpose and purpose of the Treaty.
China urges the three countries to change course, revoke the decision to carry out the above-mentioned nuclear submarine cooperation, and do something good to maintain peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.
Li Song said that "nuclear sharing" runs counter to the purposes and principles of the Treaty, and is itself nuclear proliferation.
China urges the US to abolish the "nuclear sharing" policy and withdraw all nuclear weapons deployed abroad to its own country.
It is worth noting that there are signs of "nuclear sharing" spreading to the Asia-Pacific region.
Some countries such as Japan have repeatedly expressed their desire for "nuclear sharing" with the United States.
In Japan's report to this Review Conference, the "three non-nuclear principles" mentioned in previous reports have been deleted.
Does this mean that Japan's nuclear non-proliferation policy has undergone a major adjustment?
The Japanese side owes a clear explanation to the State party and the international community.
Li Song stressed that any attempt to replicate the "nuclear sharing" model to the Asia-Pacific region is blatant nuclear proliferation, and will surely be firmly opposed by countries in the region and severely countered when necessary.