20 January 2017

News Story: China’s leader willing to give up, ‘destroy’ all nuclear weapons

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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday has called for a world without nuclear weapons at the United Nations (UN) and urged a multilateral system based on equality among nations large and small.

“Nuclear weapons should be completely prohibited and destroyed over time to make the world free of nuclear weapons,” Xi said in a speech at the United Nations in Geneva.

“Guided by the principle of peace, sovereignty, inclusiveness and shared governance, we should turn the deep sea, the polar regions, the outer space and the Internet into new frontiers for cooperation rather than a wrestling ground for competition,” he added.

Xi’s message on nuclear weapons stood apart from Trump’s at times contradictory remarks on American nuclear power.

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