Thomas M. Countryman: “I think our policies have not been thoughtful relative to how we deal with these nuclear and other weapons of mass…”

The U.S. relationship with China is one of the most important and complex relationships we have in the world.

We believe that, through JCPOA, Iran has given up its ambition of a nuclear weapon and has submitted to an international structure of intervention and compliance.

We have become, I would say, dangerously uncompetitive on the nuclear sphere when we cannot compete with countries like the French and the Russians.

This agreement is not a commercial contract. It does not provide for the sale of nuclear equipment or technology to China.