China Calls for Withdrawal of Overseas Deployed Nuclear Weapons at UN Treaty Review Conference

According to Jin10, on May 15, China called for withdrawing overseas deployed nuclear weapons and preventing new deployments on foreign territory at the Eleventh Review Conference of the Nonproliferation Treaty held at UN headquarters in New York. China also expressed serious concern over existing nuclear sharing and extended deterrence arrangements, emphasizing that these issues relate to both nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation. Additionally, China highlighted the need for heightened attention to the serious imbalance in sensitive nuclear material supply and demand among certain countries, calling for the International Atomic Energy Agency to strengthen research and monitoring to prevent violations of the Nonproliferation Treaty.