Japan to call for a reduction of China's nuclear weapons

Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2014-03-19

Nuclear missile launchers of China's Second Artillery Corps pass through
 Tiananmen Square during a military parade to celebrate the 60th anniversary of
the founding of the People's Republic of China on Oct. 1, 2009. (Internet photo)

Japan will demand that China reduce its number of nuclear warheads during the meeting of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI) taking place next month, reports China's state-run Global Times, citing a source within the Shinzo Abe administration.

The meeting will be held between Apr. 11-12 in Hiroshima, the city which was the target of the first use of a nuclear weapon in war. The Japanese foreign ministry announced that representatives from 12 NPDI member states including Germany and Australia will attend the meeting.

Japan remains locked in a territorial dispute with China over the Diaoyutai (Senkaku to Japan, Diaoyu to China) islands in the East China Sea, and Tokyo hopes to use the upcoming meeting to turn the tide against Beijing, the paper said.

China is the only nation among the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council that continues to increase its number of nuclear weapons, and Tokyo's demands for a reduction of China's nuclear warheads may find traction during the meeting. However, a Chinese nuclear security expert told the Global Times that China still possesses fewer nuclear weapons than the United States and Russia. Each of those nations have more than 10,000 nuclear warheads, according to the expert.

He said that China's stockpile of nuclear weapons has yet to surpass Great Britain and France, while adding that Japan has the capability to build more than 1,000 nuclear warheads in a very short period of time because it has both the skill and materials.

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