Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said the US-led joint statement at the Aug. 11 Geneva disarmament talks—criticizing a recent Pacific missile launch for not following prior-notification norms and invoking the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation—was a political insinuation aimed at China. Guo called the move hypocritical and indicative of double standards, urged those states to stop abusing multilateral arms-control mechanisms, and said they should replace confro

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said the US-led joint statement at the Aug. 11 Geneva disarmament talks—criticizing a recent Pacific missile launch for not following prior-notification norms and invoking the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation—was a political insinuation aimed at China. Guo called the move hypocritical and indicative of double standards, urged those states to stop abusing multilateral arms-control mechanisms, and said they should replace confrontation with sincere dialogue to create conditions for arms-control exchanges.