News Analysis NEW DELHI—Beijing’s strategic competition with the United States and the strengthening of its strategic nuclear arsenal has a direct effect on India, with which China shares thousands of miles of disputed border. Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the Staff, referred to China as the number one military challenger to the United States, while the Pentagon’s annual report to Congress, released on Nov. 3, states that China will have 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030. “The PRC [People’s Republic of China] is investing in, and expanding, the number of its land-, sea-, and air-based nuclear delivery platforms and constructing the infrastructure necessary to support this major expansion of its nuclear forces,” the Department of Defense stated in its report, “Military and Security Development Involving the People’s Republic of China.” (pdf) India and China have been involved in a tense border situation since a bloody conflict …
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