China likely loaded over 100 ICBMs in silo fields: Pentagon

China’s embassy in Washington DC said China has “maintained a defensive nuclear strategy, kept its nuclear forces at min level required for national security

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. (Reuters photo)

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 non-profit. Beijing has described reports of a military buildup as efforts to “smear and defame China and deliberately