WASHINGTON – The United States said on Thursday China’s rapid build-up of its nuclear forces was “concerning” and called on Beijing to engage with it “on practical measures to reduce the risks of destabilizing arms races.”
State Department spokesperson Ned Price told a regular news briefing the build up had become more difficult for China to hide and it appeared it was deviating from decades of nuclear strategy based around minimal deterrence.
Price was responding to a question about a report in the Washington Post that said China had begun constructing more than 100 new missile silos in a desert area in the western part of the country.
“These reports and…
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