On 11 February, Ambassador Li Song, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, gave an interview to the media, firmly refuting the accusations of the U.S. that China has conducted a nuclear explosive test.

  Ambassador Li stated that, regarding the U.S. accusation that China conducted a nuclear explosive test in June 2020, Dr. Robert Floyd, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), immediately issued a statement clarifying that the International Monitoring System of CTBTO did not detect any event consistent with the characteristics of a nuclear weapon test explosion at that time. Subsequent, more detailed analyses have not altered that determination. This fully demonstrates that U.S. accusation of Chinese nuclear explosive tests is completely groundless.

  Ambassador Li reiterated China’s firm commitment to and steadfast support for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). The U.S. actions are extremely irresponsible and driven by ulterior motives, aimed at fabricating pretexts for its own resumption of nuclear tests. China firmly rejects this. China urges the U.S. to renew the commitment of the five nuclear-weapons states to a moratorium on nuclear testing, uphold the global consensus on the ban on nuclear testing, and take concrete actions to safeguard the international nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation regime.