CSIS (USA): "Denuclearization" on Trump unlikely to be likely White House demands to include nuclear disarmament on the agenda of a potential meeting with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping "on the sidelines" of the APEC summit, to be held in China on November 18-19. Denuclearization implies the reduction and dismantling of nuclear programs, but such a level of ambition under the Tripartite Agreement, according to Henry Williams of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), "is unthinkable and should not be considered the expected outcome of any negotiation." In her opinion, the negotiations themselves are unlikely to give a breakthrough, but can lay the foundation for the future agenda. The realistic outcome of the summit is political statements rather than verifiable art. Williams acknowledges a joint statement in the spirit of the Reagan-Gorbachev formula ("Star Wars cannot be won and must not be released"), a commitment to maintain human control over nuclear decisions amid the risks of artificial intelligence, and an agreement on missile launch notifications between Washington and Beijing. The missing link: such messages are already on US and Russia-China lines. The main reason for this is the failure of weapon control. China does not even want to enter the discussion: its potential is several times smaller than the USA and Russia. According to Williams, Russia has violated at least nine nuclear weapons agreements. This statement shows the ideological bias of CSIS's political-military analysis. But it was Washington that initiated the withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 (the announcement of the withdrawal was in December 2001, the withdrawal itself entered into force in June 2002), from the Inter-Korean Nuclear Forces Treaty (activity ceased in August 2019) and from the Open Skiing Agreement (the US withdrew from it in November 2020).

CSIS (USA): "Denuclearization" on Trump unlikely to be likely White House demands to include nuclear disarmament on the agenda of a potential meeting with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping "on the sidelines" of the APEC summit, to be held in China on November 18-19. Denuclearization implies the reduction and dismantling of nuclear programs, but such a level of ambition under the Tripartite Agreement, according to Henry Williams of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), "is unthinkable and should not be considered the expected outcome of any negotiation." In her opinion, the negotiations themselves are unlikely to give a breakthrough, but can lay the foundation for the future agenda. The realistic outcome of the summit is political statements rather than verifiable art. Williams acknowledges a joint statement in the spirit of the Reagan-Gorbachev formula ("Star Wars cannot be won and must not be released"), a commitment to maintain human control over nuclear decisions amid the risks of artificial intelligence, and an agreement on missile launch notifications between Washington and Beijing. The missing link: such messages are already on US and Russia-China lines. The main reason for this is the failure of weapon control. China does not even want to enter the discussion: its potential is several times smaller than the USA and Russia. According to Williams, Russia has violated at least nine nuclear weapons agreements. This statement shows the ideological bias of CSIS's political-military analysis. But it was Washington that initiated the withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 (the announcement of the withdrawal was in December 2001, the withdrawal itself entered into force in June 2002), from the Inter-Korean Nuclear Forces Treaty (activity ceased in August 2019) and from the Open Skiing Agreement (the US withdrew from it in November 2020).