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China has denied US President Donald Trump’s claim that it is secretly conducting nuclear weapons tests, rejecting the allegation and calling it “completely false.”

Responding to Trump’s remarks made during a CBS interview on Sunday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday that Beijing maintains a self-defensive nuclear strategy and follows its moratorium on nuclear testing.

“As a permanent member of the UN Security Council and a nuclear-weapon state, China adheres to a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons, maintains a self-defensive nuclear strategy and has honoured its commitment to suspend nuclear testing,” Mao said, as quoted by Global Times.

She added that China supports the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and called on the Unit

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