The United States has accused China of practising the politics of the empty chair on the first day of talks, the Russian-american disarmament.
This is a new pass weapons between Washington and Beijing. It occurred on Twitter. The United States criticized on Monday for China to practice the policy of the empty chair on the first day of talks, the Russian-american disarmament, by posting photos of seats unoccupied flanked by flags of the people’s Republic that had nothing to do there, according to Beijing.
This episode has set the tone of the discussions that started in Vienna : they relate to the future of the treaty (New Start), which links Moscow and Washington but that the president, Donald Trump insisted now associate with China.
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“The negotiations in Vienna are on the point of start. The Chinese are absent. Beijing always hides behind the Great Wall of secrecy on its rise as a nuclear power and many other things. However, we continue with Russia”, has tweeted the ambassador Marshall Billingslea, representative of Donald to the issues of disarmament.
His text was accompanied by a photo taken in the room where the discussions, on which one could see small flags chinese posed to the location of seats not occupied.
This picnic was immediately prompted a response irritated Fu Cong, director general of the department of arms control of chinese ministry of foreign Affairs. “What a strange scene ! Display the national flags of china on a table of negotiation without the consent of China ! Good luck for the extension of New Start ! How can we fall so low ?”, tweeted Fu Cong.
The United States and Russia hold more than 90 % of the world’s nuclear arsenal
The diplomatic mission chinese in Vienna has also ironisé on the social network about the photo, likened to an “artistic performance”. China refuses to be involved in tripartite negotiations to replace the bilateral treaty New Start, signed in 2010 and which expires on 5 February 2021.
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According to the daily Russian Kommersant, citing diplomatic sources the russians, Moscow was opposed to the presence of the chinese colors at the table in the absence of a delegation from this country. The Americans would thus have “erected the flags of the three countries and took pictures,” to publish “upstream of the start of the negotiations”, the paper wrote. “Before the arrival of the Russian delegation, they were all removed,” says Kommersant.
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Washington and Moscow hold more than 90 % of the world’s nuclear arsenal and many experts accuse the Usa of using the reluctance of China to tripartite discussions as an excuse to abandon the treaty.
