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China Says U.S. Should ‘Think Twice’ About Leaving Missile Pact

  • U.S. may pull out of missile pact with Russia, Trump says
  • China has built an arsenal of intermediate-range missiles
Trump says he plans to pull out of a major arms control treaty with Russia. Marc Champion reports.(Source: Bloomberg)
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China called on the U.S. to reconsider pulling out of a three-decade-old arms control treaty with Russia, saying the move would generate “multiple negative effects.”

President Donald Trump said Saturday he planned to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, known as INT, claiming that Moscow had breached the agreement on intermediate-range conventional and nuclear weapons. The New York Times reported the move was in part to enable the U.S. to counter a Chinese arms buildup in the Pacific.