Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service I'm Paul Henley

We're coming to you live from London China has suspended talks with the US aimed at preventing an increase in nuclear weapons.

Beijing says it's in response to recent US military sales to Taiwan,

the island with a pro-independence government that China claims as its own.

A State Department spokesman Matthew Miller has responded to the decision, saying Beijing's

approach undermines strategic stability and increased the risk of a

costly arms race.

I would say unfortunately by suspending these consultations China has chosen not to pursue efforts that

would manage strategic risks and prevent costly arms races, but we the United States will

remain open to developing and implementing concrete risk reduction measures with China,

however it requires a PRC willing to also manage strategic risks.

I've been speaking to Henry Wang, who is the founder of a think tank called the Center for China and Globalization

which has links with the Chinese Communist Party. Was he surprised the talks had been stopped. I'm not surprised to hear this

because the relationship that US is having with China is deteriorating and of course you

see that also I think the US has actually a step up and

the security alliance on China you had the archers you had acquired now you have

NATO summit that now they brought in Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand and

I really had issued a statement on China as well.

So those things are really not fronted to China.

Irrespective of the disagreement on Taiwan. things are really not friendly to China.

Irrespective of the disagreement on Taiwan, do you and indeed the US, by you I mean

China, have a responsibility for the millions of people around the world very concerned

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