U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to initiate nuclear disarmament talks with Russia and China. He stated that the U.S. possesses enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world multiple times and sees no need to develop more.
Trump hopes these discussions could lead to halving the defense budgets of all three nations, redirecting funds to more functional areas. He aims to engage Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in a trilateral summit to discuss these reductions.
Trump noted that China is rapidly developing its nuclear capabilities and predicted that Beijing would soon match the nuclear destructive capacity of the U.S. and Russia within five to six years.