“Nuclear-weapon states should negotiate and conclude a treaty on no-first-use of nuclear weapons against each other or make a political statement in this regard,” Sun said.

China and India are currently the only two nuclear powers to formally maintain a no first use policy. Russia and the United States have the world’s biggest nuclear arsenals.

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    It’s China. They’ve lied and deceived about many things and should not be trusted.

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          6 months ago

          No this is about hypocrical apologists for a hypocritical nation being hypocritical… That’s you and the US, just in case you were wondering

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                Well the article is about China signing a treaty that is unenforceable, which is just likely deception and hypocrisy, and US not signing it, which at least is being honest about the value of that treaty.

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                  It’s not hypocritical for China to ask US and Russia to do something that they have already done. You can question the usefulness of such agreements but you can’t, without being a obsequious sycophant, call that hypocritical