Student nuclear disarmament speech canceled due to Chinese pressure: gov't sources

A speech by a Japanese student peace ambassador at an international disarmament conference in Geneva in August was canceled due to pressure from the Chinese government, Japanese government sources said on Thursday.The speech by a representative of high school student ambassadors calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons had been delivered at every annual Conference on Disarmament since 2014.But at the 2017 gathering, China objected, citing rules that allow only government officials to speak, according to the sources.With Beijing having voiced concerns in the past that Tokyo highlighted t…READ FULL ARTICLE