Trump proposes a nuclear agreement with Russia and China to reduce atomic arsenal

BarcelonaUS President Donald Trump on Thursday night outlined denuclearisation as one of the goals of his second term. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, the president said he wants to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping to reach an agreement. agreement to reduce their respective atomic arsenals. What's more, he said that he would propose cutting the military budget in half.

"There is no way to continue producing new nuclear weapons. In tenim ja moltíssimes. We can destroy the world 50 cops, 100 cops. And here we continue to build new nuclear weapons, and we also continue to produce nuclear weapons," Trump told reporters, and said: "This spending "Some money we could spend on other things that are actually much more productive."

For this reason, he has announced that he wants to call a meeting, although he has not specified a timetable, with President Xi and President Putin. "And I want to tell you, 'We cut our military budget in half.' And I think we can do it." "There is no reason for us to spend almost $1 trillion on the military. There is no reason to spend $400 billion; China will soon spend $400 billion," he insisted.

Trump's comments come just as Russia warned on Monday that the Prospects for maintaining the New Start Treaty in force, which is set to expire on February 5, 2026, were very unpromising and the situation was blocked. It was Putin who put on hold in 2023, during the Joe Biden administration in the United States, this New Start treaty, a 2011 pact that limits the operational nuclear warheads that both powers can deploy.

Trump has stressed that he already reached an agreement with Putin on the reduction of nuclear weapons during his first term, and China was "very open" to it, but, in his opinion, the effort failed when the covid pandemic began. He did not give a date for his trilateral meeting with Russia and China, but said he would like to hold it in the "not too distant future."

He also indicated his willingness to reinstate Russia in the G-7, a forum from which Moscow was excluded in 2014 after invading the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine and annexing it. "I think it was a mistake to kick it out," Trump said of this move.

Trump meets Narendra Modi

For his part, the US president met on Thursday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with whom he discussed in particular the trade war and possible agreements for the supply of gas and oil. "They need it and we have it," Trump told reporters just before the meeting with Modi, referring to fossil fuels.

Trump has complained several times about India's "unfair tariffs" and it was clear that this would be a topic of conversation, but even so, both leaders have shown great harmony and Modi himself has described the relationship between the United States and India as a "mega partnership." Modi has shown himself willing to reduce his tariffs, to repatriate Indian citizens who are in the United States illegally and to buy weapons in the United States.