US and China discuss potential nuclear site visits: CNN

Sources familiar with the matter say the United States is discussing with China the possibility of initiating reciprocal visits to nuclear sites, and intends to continue pushing for this during direct meetings in the coming months, according to a report by CNN.

These discussions, described as informal and preliminary, come amid growing US concerns over China's rapidly expanding nuclear weapons program, and follow the expiration last year of the last remaining arms control treaty between the United States and Russia.

According to CNN, efforts to reach a trilateral agreement began during the first term of former US President Donald Trump, but no significant progress was made, and formal talks on a new agreement have yet to begin, as both China and Russia have largely ignored substantial US outreach efforts.

Sources added that so far this year, nuclear discussions between US and Chinese officials at the working level have mostly taken place on the sidelines of meetings of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, known as the P5.