'Full of prejudice': China says Pentagon's nuclear report disregards facts

China dismissed the U.S Department of Defense’s assessment that its nuclear weapons capabilities are expanding at an accelerated rate, amid growing alarm in Washington at the increasing scope of Beijing’s military power.
 

“This report by the DoD, as with previous reports, is full of prejudice with a disregard of the facts,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Thursday.

The Pentagon estimated in its Wednesday report that China will have at least 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030 -- including 700 “deliverable” ones by 2027 that could be mounted immediately on various missiles --