{"id":1766774,"date":"2022-12-07T16:49:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766774"},"modified":"2022-12-07T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:49:24","slug":"pentagon-withholds-critical-data-on-chinas-expanding-nuclear-arsenal-republicans-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-withholds-critical-data-on-chinas-expanding-nuclear-arsenal-republicans-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Withholds Critical Data on China\u2019s Expanding Nuclear Arsenal, Republicans Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-withholds-critical-data-on-chinas-expanding-nuclear-arsenal-republicans-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766774&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Pentagon is withholding from Congress critical data on China\u2019s rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal, which could outpace the United States&#8217; own supply of the deadly weapons, according to a group of Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Four Republicans from the House and Senate Armed Services Committee are asking the Pentagon comply with a statute that mandates it provide unclassified information about China\u2019s military might, including data that could show it is on pace to exceed the United States&#8217; number of intercontinental missiles and nuclear warheads, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jiminhofe\/status\/1599877030299901952?s=46&#038;t=heWIQjUOrRPodZgkjI_UWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> sent to the Pentagon. While a classified version of such data was provided, the Pentagon has yet to furnish the unclassified companion.<\/p>\n<p>The letter comes on the heels of a Pentagon <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2022\/11\/29\/politics\/china-nuclear-arsenal-military-power-report-pentagon\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> that China could have around 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035, a number that far exceeded past estimates. China already had around 400 nuclear warheads, a number that doubled in just two years, according to the Pentagon. This rapid expansion is fueling concerns in Congress about the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to reduce America\u2019s own stockpile of nuclear weapons amid escalating threats from the CCP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve said it many times\u2014we\u2019ve only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to China\u2019s growing military might,&#8221; Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.), one of the letter\u2019s signers, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimInhofe\/status\/1599877025149644801\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter. &#8220;The [Biden administration] must be open and honest with the American people about the threat Beijing poses to global order and our way of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter also was signed by Sen. Deb Fischer (R., Neb.), Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Ala.), and Rep. Doug Lamborn (R., Colo.).<\/p>\n<p>The statute created by Congress requires the Pentagon to provide an &#8220;unclassified determination&#8221; about China\u2019s nuclear warheads, its ballistic missiles, and ballistic missile launchers, according to the letter. If China surpasses the United States in just one category outlined above, the Pentagon must alert Congress in a classified and unclassified format. So far, the Pentagon has only done so in a classified forum.<\/p>\n<p>The House Armed Services Committee\u2019s Republican faction called out President Joe Biden on Twitter over the matter, saying the president must &#8220;wake up and properly invest in our defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China has rapidly accelerated the expansion of its nuclear arsenal,&#8221; the committee\u2019s Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hascrepublicans\/status\/1600202642105434121?s=46&#038;t=Z4t25Kr5RWGRv24YefPvMQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>. &#8220;The CCP is developing new and more capable nuclear delivery platforms that can range all the United States. Now is the time for President Biden to wake up and properly invest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is withholding from Congress critical data on China\u2019s rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal, which could outpace the United States&#8217; own supply of the deadly weapons, according to a group of Republican lawmakers.<br \/>\nThe post Pentagon Withholds Critical Data on China\u2019s Expanding Nuclear Arsenal, Republicans Say appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1634428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1634428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}