{"id":1181,"date":"2020-05-21T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:52:17","slug":"at-last-us-plans-new-arms-talks-aimed-at-limiting-russian-chinese-and-us-nuclear-warheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"At last: &#8220;U.S. Plans New Arms Talks Aimed At Limiting Russian, Chinese and U.S. Nuclear Warheads &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20264e2dc6c62200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20264e2dc6c62200d-200wi\" alt=\"Nuclear missile\" title=\"Nuclear missile\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Wall Street Journal &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-russia-plan-talks-aimed-at-limiting-russian-chinese-and-u-s-nuclear-warheads-11590087614?mod=djemalertNEWS\">Trump seeks Russia\u2019s help in bringing China into three-way arms control deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump\u2019s new arms control negotiator is planning to meet with his Russian counterpart soon to discuss a new U.S. proposal for a far-reaching accord to limit all Russian, Chinese and U.S. nuclear warheads, U.S. officials disclosed Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>******************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will bring together Marshall Billingslea, who took up his post last month as Mr. Trump\u2019s senior envoy on arms control, and Sergei Ryabkov, the deputy Russian foreign minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>******************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have agreed that as soon as possible, taking into account the COVID virus, we will get together to begin negotiations,\u201d a senior Trump administration official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new U.S. proposal is far more ambitious than the 2010 New START accord. U.S. officials said that is necessary because of the projected growth in the Chinese and Russian nuclear arsenals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But critics warn the Trump administration strategy amounts to an overreach\u2014and could lead to a deadlock that will undermine the existing arms control framework, which has already begun to fray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Wall Street Journal &#8211; Trump seeks Russia\u2019s help in bringing China into three-way arms control deal President Trump\u2019s new arms control negotiator is planning to meet with his Russian counterpart soon to discuss a new U.S. proposal for a far-reaching accord to limit all Russian, Chinese and U.S. nuclear warheads, U.S. officials disclosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12830,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/12830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}