China Agrees to Nuclear Arms-Control Talks with US Next Week

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China and the United States will discuss nuclear arms control next week, the first such talks since the Obama administration, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday. China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday after a visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Washington that the two countries would hold “consultations on arms control and non-proliferation” in the coming days, as well as separate talks on maritime affairs and other issues. Those arms talks would be led on Monday by Mallory Stewart, a senior State Department official, and Sun Xiaobo, the head of the arms-control department at China’s Foreign Ministry,...