This Is Why China Will Never Sign An INF Treaty

National Interest: Fact: 95% of China's Cruise and Ballistic Missile Inventory Would Violate INF Treaty

And that's why--counter to the Trump Administration's ideas--Beijing would never sign such a document.

When the Trump administration announced Washington’s formal withdrawal from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty nearly a year ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited Russia's violation of the accord as the reason for the decision. "Russia is solely responsible for the treaty’s demise,” Pompeo wrote in a statement at the time. "Dating back to at least the mid-2000s, Russia developed, produced, flight tested, and has now fielded multiple battalions of its noncompliant missile.” By deploying the 9M729 ground-launched, intermediate-range cruise missile, Moscow struck at the heart of a Cold War-era agreement that prevented U.S. and Russian deployments of land-based missiles between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.

However, there was another reason why the Trump administration removed itself from the INF Treaty: China.

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WNU Editor: I would expand the above point. China will not sign any treaty that would limit its nuclear stockpile let alone an INF treaty. Definitely not now.