China has decided to join the weapon trade treaty and compare with Meicheng

(Beijing Comprehensive News) The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China voted yesterday to adopt a decision to join the Global Weapon Trade Treaty, which supported Beijing's efforts to compare with US President Trump's US priority policy.

According to Bloomberg and the Chinese official news agency Xinhua News Agency, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress voted through the above decision at the closing meeting yesterday.China was initially reluctant to support the treaty. The treaty aims to regulate conventional weapons trade, crack down on transfer in some cases, and slow down the unstable and humanitarian issues caused by the flood of weapons.After Trump announced his plan to withdraw from the treaty last year, China decided to sign the treaty.

Xinhua News Agency said that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the decision to join the treaty is an important measure to actively participate in global weapons trade governance and maintain international and regional peace and stability.Practice the determination and sincerity of building the concept of the community of human destiny.

The treaty was adopted by the United Nations Conference in 2013 and took effect in December 2014. It formulated the sales and transfer rules of small weapons, missile launchers and warships for participating countries.As of June this year, there were 106 parties to the contract.

Trump announced in April 2019 that the United States will withdraw from the treaty.The treaty was previously signed by Secretary of State Kerry, but has never been approved by the US Senate.This is also one of the few international agreements that the former President Obama reached and Trump decided to withdraw after taking office. Those who encountered the same destiny also included the Paris climate change agreement and the Iranian nuclear agreement.

Trump has urged Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia to buy more weapons from the United States, and some of the purpose is to reduce the trade deficit between the two sides.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced at the United Nations Conference of New York last September that China has launched a domestic legal procedure to join the weapon trade treaty.

According to data from the Institute of International Peace of Stockholm, in recent years, China has become one of the world's largest weapon exporters with the United States, Russia, France, and Germany, mainly sold to Asia, the Middle East and African countries.