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Why Is China Expanding Its Nuclear Arsenal?

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The Third Theory Is That China Is Building Nuclear Weapons

The us. Missile defense system gets better, and china's smaller nuclear arsenal is suddenly not looking so strong any more. And so it's conceivable that we kind of goaded them into this, that in building missile defense to protect us against north korea or iran, we've actually provoke the chin s into building up their arsenal right? So that's theory number one. Well, the next one is that the chinese are also worried about some of their neighbors and their nuclear improvements. russia has put a huge amount of money into modernizing its force. But they're also worried about india, with whom the chinese have all kinds of border disputes, under way now...

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