China’s Nuclear Stockpile Growing At ‘Accelerating Pace,’ Will Have 1,000 Warheads By 2030: Pentagon

This is really frightening. With the deterrence of the Trump Administration gone, China is on the move in a big way. They are building up their military at an astounding pace. The GOP must make the Biden Administration’s inept handling of China a major issue for the 2022 mid-term elections.

So typical that Western leaders are sipping champagne at the Glasgow #UN climate-love-in while #China plots WWIII in the Pacific.#taiwan #COP26 #COP26Glasgow

— Alexandra Marshall (@ellymelly) November 4, 2021

#China already has enough nukes to deter attacks. #XiJinping now wants an arsenal to fight a war. https://t.co/9JJ7rakf2A

— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) November 4, 2021

China’s nuclear stockpile growing at ‘accelerating pace,’ will have 1,000 warheads by 2030: Pentagon

While the US is currently treaty limited with Russia to deploy up no more than 1,550 nuclear warheads, China is under no such restrictions

Fox News, November 3, 2021

China is building nuclear warheads at an “accelerating pace” and will have 1,000 by the end of the decade, according to the Pentagon’s new China report released Wednesday after a two-month delay.

Just a year ago in the last China report, the Pentagon had estimated China’s nuclear arsenal to be in the “low-200s” and would “at least double” over the next decade. The new report demonstrates China is expanding much more rapidly.

“The accelerating pace of the PRC’s nuclear expansion may enable the PRC to have up to 700 deliverable nuclear warheads by 2027. The PRC likely intends to have at least 1,000 warheads by 2030, exceeding the pace and size the DoD projected in 2020.”

The PRC, or the People’s Republic of China, is how the Pentagon refers to China.

China is able to build up its nuclear stockpile by “increasing its capacity to produce and separate plutonium,” the report says.

The U.S. is currently treaty limited with Russia to deploy up no more than 1,550 nuclear warheads. China is under no such restrictions because they don’t have any arms control treaties with any other country.

China “is building hundreds of new ICBM silos, and is on the cusp of a large silo-based ICBM force expansion comparable to those undertaken by other major powers,” the report warns.

Over the summer, U.S. intelligence detected the presence of the missile fields and civilian satellite radar discovered some of them.

The report says in 2020, China launched more than 250 ballistic missiles “exceeding its launch numbers for 2018 and 2019 despite COVID-19.”

A year ago in its last annual report to Congress, the Pentagon said China had amassed the biggest Navy in the world. It has since improved according to the new annual report to Congress.

“In the near-term, the PLAN will have the capability to conduct long-range precision strikes against land targets from its submarine and surface combatants using land-attack cruise missiles, notably enhancing the PRC’s global power projection capabilities.”

The report measures the growth of China’s military in 2020 only, it does not account for China’s growth this year. The report did not cover the recent hypersonic weapons test from space, which caught U.S. intelligence by surprise.

The newly released report did cover the following development in the field of hypersonic weapons—the first deployment of the advanced system that travels five times the speed of sound, but more importantly according to experts, it does not travel in a predictable, ballistic trajectory.

“In 2020, the PLARF began to field its first operational hypersonic weapons system, the DF-17 hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) capable medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM),” the report says.

The U.S. military’s top officer, Gen. Mark Milley called the recent test of a Chinese hypersonic a “very significant” test.

 

 

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