China says United States is wrong to pull out of nuclear arms pact
After Trump expresses his plans to withdraw from 1987 treaty
US President Donald Trump rallies with supporters at Elko Regional Airport in Elko, Nevada, US October 20, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS
Foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a regular news briefing that China was opposed to the withdrawal.
On Sunday, President Donald Trump said Washington would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, negotiated by then president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.
The pact provided for elimination of short-range and intermediate-range nuclear and conventional missiles by both countries.
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