China attacked the proposed the recent Indo-US deal on nuclear technology assistance and transfer citing that the bilateral deal will inflict a ‘hard blow’ to global non-proliferation regime and trigger a domino effect.



The leading Chinese political mouthpiece, the Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily) carried out an editorial that says; ‘This (the proposed deal) would be a hard blow on America’s leading role in the global proliferation prevention system as well as the system itself. This will bring about a series of negative impacts. Now that the United States buys another country in with nuclear technologies in defiance of international treaty, other nuclear suppliers also have their own partners of interest as well as good reasons to copy what the United States did.’



Ironically, it was China who blatantly flouted all international nuclear and missile proliferation and control regimes by assisting Pakistan’s military nuclear programme and still continues to supply missile technology to Pakistan for anti-India specific purposes.





News Source : Deccan Herald Image Credit : NRO