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China’s Swelling Nuclear Stockpile Makes It a Growing Rival to U.S., Pentagon Finds

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WASHINGTON—China is on pace to challenge the U.S. militarily and prevent it from intervening in a crisis with Taiwan, including by expanding its stockpile of nuclear warheads, the Pentagon said in a report published Tuesday.

The 170-page congressionally mandated annual report, which assesses China’s military and security strategy, comes amid U.S.-China tensions over Taiwan and halting efforts by the U.S. to engage Russia and China in nuclear arms control talks. The report concluded that China’s goal of expanding its nuclear arsenal and its military pursuit of control of Taiwan hadn’t been hampered over the past year.

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