Xi also told Scholz that China supported Europe's important role in pushing for peace talks over Ukraine, and in creating a "balanced, effective and sustainable" European security framework, according to Xinhua. But Western governments remain concerned because of a lack of transparency over the Chinese nuclear programme. "A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought", the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, or the "P5", had said in their joint statement.Ĭhina maintains a stated policy that it will not use nuclear weapons first and not threaten non-nuclear states with those weapons. Xi's statement repeated China's pledge made in January - alongside nuclear-armed France, Russia, Britain and the United States - to use atomic weapons only for defensive purposes.
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