Chemical Weapons
China signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) on January 13, 1993. The CWC was ratified April 25, 1997. In the official declaration submitted to OPCW Chinese government has declared that it had possessed small arsenal of chemical weapons in the past but that it had destroyed it before ratifying Convention. It has declared only three former chemical production facilities that may have produced mustard gas, phosgene and Lewisite.
China was found to have supplied Albania with a small stockpile of chemical weapons in the 1970s during the Cold War.
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