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US President Donald Trump ’s latest call targeting China – this time to cut back on nuclear weapons – may be ignored by Beijing, according to some analysts.
They said this was because China did not view its nuclear arsenal as being on a par with either the United States or Russia.
The call from Trump was part of his address to the World Economic Forum in Davos , where he floated the idea of talks with Russia and China about reducing nuclear weapons stockpiles.
“We want to see if we can denuclearise, and I think that’s very possible,” Trump said via video link on Thursday.
“And I can tell you that [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin wanted to do it, he and I wanted to do it,” Trump said, referring to the time before he lost the 2020 presidential election.
“We had a good conversation with China. They would have been involved, and that would have been an unbelievable thing for the planet.”