China, the world’s fifth-largest weapons supplier, has signed up to a global arms control treaty. Photo: Simon Song
China set to join Arms Trade Treaty that Donald Trump threatened to abandon
- Legal process under way, Beijing says after Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells United Nations China is committed to defending multilateralism
- Any unilateral move to leave weapons control pact will have a ‘negative impact in various areas’, minister says in thinly veiled swipe at United States
China, the world’s fifth-largest weapons supplier, has signed up to a global arms control treaty. Photo: Simon Song
