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Russia and China said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile-defense shield plans threatened strategic stability and that Washington had been irresponsible not to work on a replacement for a landmark nuclear treaty.

The rebuke was issued in a joint statement after President Xi Jinping welcomed President Vladimir Putin with an honor guard and a gun salute at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, as children waved Chinese and Russian flags.

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