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insurgent ordinary citizens of palm com has driven its summer of protests but not without being led by some serious star power. Im Melissa Chan Welcome To News Asia thank you for joining us the United States and russia have withdrawn from a Landmark Arms Control Treaty today it had been in place for 30 years the i
the dynamic between the united states and china and of course that then has an impact on the other neighboring nuclear states now most of china s missiles actually fall within that formerly banned intermediate range and now the u.s. will in theory be able to deploy and station similar ones in the asia pacific. well that s at least the concern from the chinese perspective joining us to explain this and more is adam me of macor university adam so that set up i laid out just now is that really the case that the u.s. is going to be the one ratcheting up tensions in the region. well melissa certainly demise of the i n f a treaty makes everyone less safe you know in asia iran is a prospect of a new arms race principally between us russia and china but also others north korea south korea japan for example an arms race dynamic would especially be likely if the u.s. decides to deploy new missile is to asia you know to counter china s growing
weapons system were publicly displayed near moscow but not the missiles themselves russia accuses the us of also violating b. i.n.f. treaty with other weapon systems in an interview with the us has lead to arms control negotiator said that the us was suspending the treaty to force russia s hand and allow washington to start developing the type of arms banned by the pact. suspend it and then a six month clock runs if you will during that time russia still can get back into compliance but it frees our obligations under the treaty so we suspend our obligations with the intent to withdraw if they don t get back in compliance but we have abided by the treaty for the entire time and by suspending their obligations that we ll be able to do the research and development of similar systems that rationale has fully fueled it in in the field that was andrea thompson a u.s. undersecretary for arms control and international security talking to. them. now earlier we spoke to russia analyst constantin
tended to violate the treaty a russian foreign ministry spokesman said the u.s. move was part of a strategy to daunt its international legal obligations earlier g.w.s. moscow correspondent emily sure when told us more about the kremlin s reaction the foreign ministry actually said that they reserve the right to respond i think this is more likely to be a response to the rhetoric we heard on the u.s. side and just the russian rhetoric as it were russia really doesn t respond well to the language of ultimatums and i think they re making that clear with this harsh response the other thing i think is just basically a testament to how bad relations have gotten we ve heard a lot of anti u.s. rhetoric in the build up to this decision head of the decision today russia was accusing the u.s. of not sticking to its international obligations of not being open for dialogue at all and i think what we ll continue to see in these next six months when the withdrawal the withdrawal period is basically b
sees this move from the u.s. if they re happy with the freedom to do as they please or worried about the threat of a new cold war. it is clear that in some respects russia will be happy it will be a bit able to keep the end s.s.e. eight missiles that it has already produced as if they a secular state saying it will also be able to deployed were it was that i think it was one of the suites and that john bolton the national security advisor to president drum brought to moscow last autumn when he said ok yes we re leaving the treaty we re seconds out of you but you can deploy them for example against china which is one of the sort of it s a big white elephant in the room here because this is what america is also interested in deploying these missiles against the chinese only adamant that if president putin wants to start a new arms race for the united states we ll know what the result is going to be is