China implies US hypocrisy over nuclear disarmament

China on Tuesday urged the United States to ‍fulfil its nuclear disarmament responsibilities after a draft Pentagon report said China was likely to have loaded ‍more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles in sites near the Mongolian border and showed no desire for arms control talks. “As a super nuclear power with the largest nuclear arsenal, the most urgent task for the US is to earnestly fulfil the special and priority responsibility for ⁠nuclear disarmament,” Lin Jian, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, said at a regular press conference in Beijing. The US should “substantially reduce its nuclear arsenal to create conditions for other nuclear-weapon states to join the nuclear disarmament process,” Lin added.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. In a draft report seen by Reuters, the Pentagon said China had probably installed more than 100 solid-fueled DF-31 ICBMs in the three silo fields close to