BEIJING - China should expand its stock of nuclear warheads to 1,000 soon, Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin said on Friday, even as US President Donald Trump repeats his call for China to join an
arms control treaty.
Tensions between the United States and China, already high from an ongoing trade war, have increased in recent months amid a war of words over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. Hu added that this stockpile should include "at least 100 DF-41 strategic missiles", a latest class of intercontinental missiles capable of striking continental United States, according to defense experts.
Hu's post on Weibo - a Twitter-like social media in China - came after White House said Trump called for "effective arms control" that includes China and Russia during a telephone call on Thursday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
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