Trump Says He Wants To Work With China and Russia on ‘Denuclearization’

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On Thursday, President Trump delivered a virtual address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and said he wanted to discuss the idea of “denuclearization” with Russia and China.

The president claimed that during his last term in office, he discussed the idea of denuclearization with Russian President Vladimir Putin, although the previous Trump administration withdrew from arms control treaties with Russia, including the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

“We were talking about denuclearization of our two countries, and China would have come along. China right now has a much smaller nuclear armament than us, or field, than us, but they’re going to be catching [up] at some point,” Trump said.