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[96] [97] China's total trade with Russia was a record $190 billion in 2022. [98] In the same year, China accounted for 40% of Russia's imports. [99] In the first half of 2023, models from Chinese car companies accounted for more than a third of all sales in Russia. [100] In 2023, China's total trade with Russia reached a record $240 billion. [101]
[15] [19] It is in China's interest to end the conflict, which will have a positive impact on the global economy and reduce nuclear tensions following Russia's repeated threats to use nuclear weapons, [22] but the country benefits from continued tensions that divert the attention and resources of China's political opponents. [12] [23]
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the joint statement. [1] Ma Zhaoxu, vice-minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in China, said in a media interview that the joint statement, the first by the leaders of the five countries on nuclear weapons, reflects the political will of the five countries to prevent nuclear war and sends a common voice to maintain global strategic ...
China, which is expanding its nuclear weapons capabilities, urged in February that the largest nuclear powers should first negotiate a no-first-use treaty between each other. (Reporting By Greg ...
According to those remarks, U.S. strategy was to pursue nuclear arms restraints with China and Russia, but if China continued on its current trajectory and if Russia exceeds New START limits, the ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -States with the largest nuclear arsenals should negotiate a treaty on no-first-use of nuclear weapons against each other or make a political statement in this regard, the ...
In December 2022, Putin claimed that Russia would not be the first to use nuclear weapons or the second, and that "Russian nuclear doctrine is premised on self-defense." [40] [41] [42] Russia and China do maintain a mutual agreement to have a no first use policy which was developed under the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -The United States is pushing China to break a longstanding resistance to nuclear arms talks, seeing a "limited opportunity" for early two-way conversations on the superpowers ...