2026-08-13
52 分钟China rejects a joint statement led by the United States on ballistic missile launch notifications.
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I'm Do Hongyu in Beijing.
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Our first story.
China has rejected a U.S.-led joint statement on ballistic missile launch notifications
and the conference on disarmament in Geneva.
The statement said recent missile testing activity in the Pacific area did not follow standard practices.
Chinese Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs Li Qijian slammed the accusations,
saying they're baseless and against China's goodwill gesture of providing advanced notification of the tests.
He urged the U.S.
To reflect on its own policies and take more actions than genuinely contribute to global peace and stability.
For more, we're joined by Zhou Buo,
Senior Fellow of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University.
Thank you very much for joining us.
The United States brought together 41 countries to issue a joint statement criticizing China's missile test.
Does it really represent the broader international community,