Bloomberg: Regarding recent statement from Donald Trump regarding Chinese students in the United States. He said he welcomes more to come and has a target of around 600,000 which is double what we’re currently standing at in terms of the number of Chinese students. I’d like to ask the Foreign Ministry for your comments, especially in light of recent statements from the Chinese Foreign Ministry about how currently enrolled Chinese students are being treated in the United States.

Guo Jiakun: Exchanges and cooperation on education help enhance interactions and understanding between people from all countries. We hope the U.S. will act on President Trump’s commitment to welcoming Chinese students to study in the country, stop groundlessly harassing, interrogating or repatriating them, and earnestly protect their legitimate and lawful rights and interests.

RIA Novosti: U.S. President Donald Trump said recently that the U.S. and Russia are discussing cuts to their nuclear arsenals and expressed hope for China’s participation. Is China willing to join the talks?

Guo Jiakun: We noted relevant reports. The country sitting on the world’s biggest nuclear arsenal should earnestly fulfill its special and primary responsibility for nuclear disarmament, further make drastic and substantive cuts to its nuclear arsenal, and create conditions for the ultimate realization of complete and thorough nuclear disarmament.

China’s nuclear strength is by no means on the same level with that of the U.S. Our nuclear policy and strategic security environment are also completely different. It’s neither reasonable nor realistic to ask China to join the nuclear disarmament negotiations with the U.S. and Russia.

China follows a policy of “no first use” of nuclear weapons and a nuclear strategy that focuses on self-defense. China always keeps its nuclear strength at the minimum level required by national security, and never engages in arms race with anyone. China’s nuclear strength and nuclear policy contribute to world peace.

JoongAng Ilbo: The ROK maintains close cooperation with China and the U.S., and at the same time keeps a certain distance. In light of this, ROK President Lee Jae-myung said that the ROK should not continue the policy of “security with the U.S. and economy with China.” Such logic cannot go on. This has drawn wide attention. What is China’s comment?

Guo Jiakun: A sound, stable and deepening China-ROK relationship is in the fundamental interests of the two peoples and conducive to the peace, stability, development and prosperity in the region and beyond. This is the consensus between the two countries. The two countries grow bilateral relations for our common interests, which does not target any third party and should not be affected by any third-party factors. China’s ROK policy maintains continuity and stability. We hope the ROK will work with China to jointly promote the sustained, sound and steady growth of the China-ROK strategic cooperative partnership.