WASHINGTON šC China is likely to have loaded more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles across its latest three silo fields and has no desire for arms control talks, according to a draft Pentagon report which highlighted Beijing¡¯s growing military ambitions.
China is expanding and modernizing its weapons stockpile faster than any other nuclear-armed power, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a Chicago-based nonprofit. Beijing has described reports of a military buildup ?as efforts to ¡°smear and defame China and deliberately mislead the international community.¡±
Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump said that he may be working on a plan ?to denuclearize ?with China and Russia. But the draft Pentagon report said Beijing did not appear to ?be interested.
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