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China said on Tuesday it will continue to "modernise its nuclear arsenal for reliability and security reasons" and called on Moscow and Washington to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Beijing's clarification comes after the five permanent members of the UN Security Council pledged the previous day to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. The five countries — the US, China, Russia, the UK and France — declared that "a nuclear war cannot be won" and promised to strengthen their measures to "prevent the unauthorised or unintended use of nuclear weapons". According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri),...
