President Donald TrumpSpeaking Thursday at the Oval Office, minimized a next nuclear summit in Beijing between Iran, Russia and China, three main opponents in the United States
The discussions, confirmed for the first time by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday and which come a few days after Iran has rejected Trump’s push to engage in nuclear negotiations will coincide with a meeting of the United Nations Security Council concerning the expansion of the Uranium of the almost quality of the weapon.
Trump may have suggested Beijing, Moscow and Tehran Will have their own discussions on “de -escalation”.
“Well, they may be talking about non-nuclear problems. Maybe they’re going to talk about the de-escalation of nuclear weapons,” Trump told journalists.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and North Korean dictator Kim Jong a (Getty Images)
Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin once gave himself up to “strong” discussions of nuclear weapons and said he believed that he had won the 2016 elections, a new Russian denuclearization would have been on the table.
“I think I would have concluded an agreement with Putin on de -escalation, denuclearization,” said Trump. “But we would have defused nuclear weapons because the power of nuclear weapons is so large and so devastating.”
The president also said that China “would catch us in five years” because of its rapid development of its nuclear stocks, although it was much earlier than other experts warned it.
The Pentagon in 2024 assessed that China would have 600 nuclear weaponsFrom the 2000s in 2020. But, in a report on Wednesday, experts from the Bulletin des Scientists Atomic said that the statements that China would be a “peer” or “close to peer” with the United States in the near future was a “gross exaggeration”.
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President Donald Trump speaks at a meeting with NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, in the oval office of the White House on March 13, 2025, in Washington, DC (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)
“There is no evidence that the current nuclear expansion of China will lead to parity with the American arsenal,” said the report. “Even the worst 2023 projection of 1,500 warheads by 2035 is less than half of current American nuclear stocks.”
Russia would have 5,580 nuclear weapons, And the United States would have 5,225, while China arrives at a distant third, according to the Arms Control Association.
Concerns concerning Largely uncontrolled nuclear program of North Korea have also continued to go up in recent years, especially after Pyongyang has formed narrower links with Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
“It would be a great success if we could lower the number,” said Trump.
“You do not need it to this extent,” he added, noting the immense destruction, even a nuclear weapon could inflict.
North Korea would have 50 nuclear weapons, which Trump noted “a lot”.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Une, center, oversees artillery shooting exercises in North Korea on March 7, 2024. (Korean Central News Agency / Korea News Service via AP, file)
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But he also underlined the positive relationship he had with Kim Jong one during his first presidency and suggested that the relationship could extend during his second term. Trump seemed to suggest that there may be room for nuclear negotiations.
“I have an excellent relationship with Kim Jong Un, and we’ll see what’s going on,” Trump told journalists. “But it is certainly a nuclear power.”
