“The nuclear arms control talks scheduled between the US and China this coming week are the first good news in months and months of foreign policy bad news. With more and more thinly veiled calls for war with China coming from the US Congress, increased military activity in the Indo-Pacific by multiple nations, and the frightening risk of escalation of both the Ukraine and Gaza wars, negotiations between the US and China serve to build trust, repair a fractious relationship and potentially reverse, or at least slow, the current arms race. With Russia leaving the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty this week, a treaty never ratified by the US, as well as US departures from other strategic and nuclear treaties over the last two decades, the possibility of nuclear weapons talks between China and the US is much welcomed.”