U.S. tries to enlist Moscow's help to bring China into trilateral arms-control talks

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The United States and Russia are set to meet for a new round of arms-control talks in Vienna, Austria, on June 22, Bloomberg reports.

A State Department official told Bloomberg the U.S. may be willing to extend the Obama-era New Start treaty, which caps both countries' nuclear arsenals, despite the Trump administration previously nixing Russia's attempts to open talks.

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China remains resistant to participating in any discussions, arguing that Russian and American nuclear stockpiles dwarf its own, which the Trump administration acknowledges. But the White House also believes Beijing is in the process of aggressively building up their cache, hence the U.S. insistence on China's eventual participation. Read more at Bloomberg.

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