China and the United States of America pledged to a joint commitment to ensure peace via global nuclear security, revealing plans of annual dialogues involving the world’s biggest developed and developing countries.
A report from the Xinhua News Agency featured a joint agreement signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama stating the two nations' "commitment to working together" to keep international peace.
According to the outlet, the two leaders met on the sidelines of this year's Nuclear Security Summit (NSS).
The statement revealed that the commitment entails "reducing the threat of nuclear terrorism and striving for a more inclusive, coordinated, sustainable and robust global nuclear security architecture for the common benefit and security of all."
Apparently, this includes teaming up to keep North Korea from doing anything unforgivable with their nuclear weapons.
The Joint Commitment
While history puts the two nations in different sides, China and the U.S. are presently nurturing warming relations.
In spite of difficulties, the countries from both East and West are working hard to keep good will between the two intact.
Proof of this is the recent declaration of their commitment towards removing the threat of nuclear weapons.
According to a joint statement signed by the Obama and Xi, China and the U.S. "will continue to coordinate efforts to strengthen counter nuclear smuggling capabilities and share best practices with the international community, taking full advantage of the training programs sponsored by the China Customs Training Center for Radiation Detection."
Aside from that, the two leaders also hailed "the fruitful cooperation between the two sides," particularly on improving security measures applied to radioactive materials which entails proper recovery and transport security of said resources.
Furthermore, the two countries sought to continue "strong communication and cooperation" in order to achieve total nuclear security.
North Korea
This might mean that China will be working with the U.S. to help denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the issue on North Korea's nuclear power was highlighted during the NSS.
BBC News believes that this was due to NorKor's test firing of a missile near the East coast of the peninsula just hours after the leaders of the U.S. and China met.
This as well as previous missile and bomb testing conducted by North Korea in the past few weeks are considered violations of existing U.N. sanctions and are condemned by countries attending the NSS.
The burden of implementing sanctions on Pyongyang fall onto China's shoulders because of what Obama described in February as China's "unique influence over the North Korean regime."