China’s communist leadership is uninterested in reducing the risk posed by nuclear weapons, according to senior U.S. officials.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to refuse to engage in nuclear nonproliferation and strategic stability talks, despite an announcement last year that the regime would cooperate with the United States on the issue, according to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Alexandra Bell.
“As a first step, we’d really like to have a conversation with them about each other’s doctrines, about crisis communication, crisis management,” Bell said during a Nov. 1 fireside talk with the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank….