US nuclear treaty ultimatum about China as much as Russia
(World News Russia)

Washington: By announcing its intent to withdraw from a decades-old nuclear weapons treaty, the United States is targeting Russia, which it says violated the bilateral deal — but also China, which is developing arms that are banned under it. Beijing is not a signatory to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), so it’s Russia that has been singled out for violating the accord, signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. At issue is Moscow’s new 9M729 ground-based missile system, which Washington says has a reach that exceeds 500 kilometers (300 miles) — a claim the Kremlin denies. “Russia has not unfortunately honored the agreement, so...