A US senator urged that China must be included in future nuclear arms control negotiations. He also advised that the United States needs to accelerate its nuclear modernization efforts, including deploying more bombers, to ensure verifiable treaties and accountability.

China “has to be involved” in nuclear arms control talks, while the US must step up its nuclear modernisation, including deploying more bombers, a senator responsible for overseeing American strategic forces said on Monday. “We need to be able to have a verifiable [treaty] and ensure accountability under treaties, and have them enforced with Russia and with China,” said Deb Fischer, a Nebraska Republican and chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee. The US has...