
A group of Democratic lawmakers are urging President Biden to prioritize nuclear weapons strategic agreements in discussions with China, to include pushing for greater transparency and measures they say could avoid a potential arms race. In a letter to Biden ahead of his upcoming virtual meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and John Garamendi (D-Calif.), the co-chairs of the new Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group,…