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China’s military buildup has reached what a new congressional report calls a “war footing,” with hundreds of new missile silos and expanding nuclear capabilities that could erode America’s long-standing deterrence edge in the Indo-Pacific.

China has built roughly 350 new intercontinental missile silos and expanded its nuclear warhead stockpile by 20% in the past year, part of a sweeping military expansion that the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says could strain U.S. readiness to counter Chinese aggression.

The commission’s 2025 Annual Report to Congress says Beijing’s rapid nuclear buildup, combined with new artificial intelligence–driven warfare systems, is transforming the People’s Liberation Army into a force “capable o

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