A new Pentagon report from the US suggests China is attempting to at least double the number of nuclear warheads in its arsenal. 9News
The Trump administration has long sought to include China in its nuclear arms control talks with Russia, something Beijing has resisted. And while the number of Chinese nuclear warheads is growing rapidly, its overall stockpile is still dwarfed by that of Russia and the US.limits Russia and the US to some 1550 nuclear warheads on deployed Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, deployed submarine-launched ballistic missiles and deployed heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments.
The report also says that "China has already achieved parity with—or even exceeded—the United States in several military modernisation areas," including shipbuilding, land-based conventional ballistic and cruise missiles and integrated air defence systems. China "has more than 1250 ground-launched ballistic missiles and ground-launched cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5500 kilometres," the report said, adding that in 2019 Beijing "launched more ballistic missiles for testing and training than the rest of the world combined."boost its military spending
China's official defence budget was $174 billion in 2019 compared to the US budget of about $685 billion.
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