SpaceWar.com reports: “China called on Washington and Moscow on Tuesday to ‘further reduce’ their nuclear arsenals as a precondition for its participation in potential disarmament talks called for by US President Donald Trump.

Trump said in a video address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week that ‘we’d like to see denuclearisation’, and reiterated his desire for three-way talks with Russia and China.

The day after Trump’s Davos address, Russia said it wanted to resume bilateral nuclear disarmament talks ‘as soon as possible’, and that ‘the ball is in the Americans’ court’.

The former Cold War rivals possess almost 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons between them, but Moscow pulled out of the last remaining arms control agreement with Washington in 2023 amid a sharp deterioration in relations.

‘The two nuclear powers with the largest nuclear arsenals should conscientiously fulfil their special… responsibilities for nuclear disarmament,’ the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement sent to AFP on Tuesday.

They must ‘further substantially reduce their nuclear arsenals, so as to create the necessary conditions for other nuclear-weapon states to join the disarmament process’, it said…”