{"id":3006,"date":"2019-04-26T06:39:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T06:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2019-04-26T06:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T06:39:15","slug":"trump-aims-for-major-nuclear-deal-with-russia-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=3006","title":{"rendered":"Trump aims for major nuclear deal with Russia, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, <\/strong>US President Donald Trump is aiming for a grand nuclear deal with Russia and China, that he sees as a potential signature foreign policy achievement, the media reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Administration officials told CNN that the White House is conducting intense inter-agency talks to develop options for the President to pursue such a deal, building off another nuclear pact, the New START Treaty, which expires in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President has made clear that he thinks that arms control should include Russia and China and should include all the weapons, all the warheads, all the missiles,&#8221; said a senior White House official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have an ambition to give the President options as quickly as possible to give him as much space on the calendar as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is something that no administration has tried,&#8221; the official said, adding: &#8220;But I would argue no administration has tried what (Trump) tried with North Korea for example.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Administration officials said their aim was to revamp a dusty pact for a new age and increase global security.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has not set out a timeline for negotiations or even raised the prospect with China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Congress earlier this month that the the US was in the &#8220;very beginning of conversations about renewing&#8221; the treaty.<\/p>\n<p>The 2010 New START treaty limits both the US and Russia to deploying 1,550 nuclear warheads over 700 delivery systems, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and bombers.<\/p>\n<p>It also allows for 18 on-site inspections every year that allow each side to keep a close eye on the others&#8217; capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The treaty is set to expire in 2021, but could be extended for up to five years if both sides agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, US President Donald Trump is aiming for a grand nuclear deal with Russia and China, that he sees as a potential signature foreign policy achievement, the media reported on Friday. Administration officials told CNN that the White House is conducting intense inter-agency talks to develop options for the President to pursue such a deal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/3008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}