arms limitation

It was the first East-West security agreement since the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty on nuclear weapons signed by Jimmy Carter and Leonid I. Brezhnev in 1979.

The talks produced a number of agreements on scientific and cultural exchanges and eventually led to the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.

Both the Trump and Biden administrations have pressed Beijing to join in arms limitation talks with the U.S. and Russia, but to date China has refused the offer.

The Trump administration sought to include China in its nuclear arms limitation talks with Russia.

The meeting has long been planned and is not a reaction to recent developments, but the alliance is concerned about Putin’s threats and his decisions to pull Russia out of important arms limitation treaties.