Intermediate-Range Challenges

... certain degree of transparency as applied to its own arsenals. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China has been calling for the preservation of the treaty, but this is clearly not enough now. The INF Treaty is falling apart at the seams, creating threats to all the arms control regimes in their current form. The crisis could ... ... bury the very principle of arms control or create an environment for a new strategic stability architecture. France and the United Kingdom are obviously concerned about the possibility of becoming targets for Russia’s restored non-strategic missiles. In the worst-case scenario, if the INF Treaty is cancelled altogether, the current ...