Russia takes wraps off new missile to try to save U.S. nuclear pact

Russia showed foreign military attaches on Wednesday a new cruise missile that the United States says breaches a landmark arms control pact, billing it as an exercise in transparency it hoped would persuade Washington to stay in the treaty. Washington has threatened to pull out of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), alleging that the new Russian missile, the Novator 9M729 (called SSC-8 by NATO), violates the pact, which bans either side from stationing short and intermediate-range, land-based missiles in Europe.

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USA says one thing but inside it means something else.. They say they are exiting the treaty because of Russia but the truth is, they are exiting it because China is not a signatory of this treaty, and they have many ground based missiles, which are cheap to make, unlike air launched and sea launched missiles..
This treaty will benefit USA to counter China and develop ground based missiles again, and even in larger numbers because of their defense budget and big economy.