Russia responds to China's nuclear weapons plan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Sun also proposed a road map or timeline for weaving negative security assurance -- or a guarantee by nuclear powers not to use the weapons against non-nuclear states -- into the international legal framework.
53% : Nuclear powers should "continue to fulfill the special and primary responsibilities and further reduce their nuclear arsenals in a substantive and significant manner," said Sun Xiaobo, director-general of the Chinese foreign ministry's Department of Arms Control at a meeting of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in February.
53% : Newsweek reached out to the U.S. Department of Defense, the Russian foreign ministry, and the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., via written requests for comment.
42% : Russian media outlet RBC on Monday cited the country's foreign ministry as saying Beijing's proposal should be weighed against military and political realities amid "the continuing deterioration of the situation in the world," including in relations among the "nuclear five" -- which in order of the size of their stockpiles comprise Russia, the U.S., China, France and the United Kingdom.

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