中美举行军控会谈？中方回应

Group 1 - The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson expressed the hope that the U.S. would engage in strategic stability dialogue with Russia and discuss the follow-up arrangements for the New START treaty [1] - The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Yeo, met with the Russian delegation and is scheduled to meet with China and other delegations in Geneva, indicating that these talks are more substantive following the expiration of the New START treaty [1] - The U.S. has reportedly held "preparatory" meetings with Russia and China in Washington after the New START treaty's expiration, and has communicated multiple times with the UK and France regarding nuclear weapons issues [1] Group 2 - Yeo accused China of significantly expanding its nuclear arsenal and conducting secret nuclear tests, while the Chinese disarmament ambassador refuted these claims, stating that the U.S. is fabricating excuses for its own nuclear test resumption [2] - Yeo claimed that the New START treaty has flaws due to China's "opaque nuclear weapons development," asserting that China is rapidly approaching the treaty's nuclear warhead limits and could have enough fissile material to produce over a thousand nuclear warheads by 2030 [2] - Military expert Zhang Junsha stated that the U.S. push for China to join nuclear disarmament talks is a pretext for its own nuclear arsenal expansion, highlighting that as of the end of 2024, China is estimated to have around 600 nuclear warheads, significantly fewer than the U.S. and Russia, which each have around 5,000 [2] Group 3 - Zhang Junsha argued that the U.S. aims to curb China's self-defense nuclear capabilities and use this as an excuse to withdraw from international nuclear mechanisms, noting that Russia has also questioned the sincerity of the U.S. in including the UK and France in negotiations [3] - He emphasized that China is the last of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to develop nuclear weapons and is the only one that has committed to a no-first-use policy, maintaining a principle of minimum deterrence for self-defense [3] - The disparity in nuclear capabilities among the U.S., Russia, and China is significant, and the U.S. demand for China to join negotiations lacks both practical foundation and moral justification [3]