China has a long-term plan to rival the world's biggest military powers.
that China was set to quadruple its nuclear stockpile by the end of the current decade. China, it said, "likely intends to have at least 1,000 warheads by 2030".adding that nuclear forces were kept at a "minimum level".
"China's nuclear weapons are the most important issue," according to Veerle Nouwens, of the Royal United Services institute in London. "The Chinese understand that they are a long way behind, so they are trying to make big breakthroughs to leap-frog other powers," according to Dr Zeno Leoni, of King's College London.China has denied testing hypersonic missiles, but Western experts believe thatIt's unclear exactly what systems China may be developing.
Dr Leoni says that while hypersonic missiles may not - on their own - be a game-changer, they will make some targets highly vulnerable to attack.However, he also suggests that that the threat from Chinese hypersonic missiles may have been overstated by some Western officials, who are keen to make as strong a case as possible for the financing of military space technology.
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