By Miya Tanaka
China is on course to more than triple its stockpile of nuclear warheads to 1,500 by 2035, when it aims to complete the modernization of its military, the U.S. Defense Department said Tuesday in an annual report on the Asian country’s military power.
The Pentagon also warned that Beijing aims to make the People’s Liberation Army “a more credible military tool” by 2027 as it pursues unification with Taiwan, a self-ruled democratic island that Beijing views as its own…
