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Satellite Images Show China Building 250 New Nuclear Missile Silos

Researchers with the Federation of American Scientists uncovered 250 suspected nuclear missile silos under construction in a desert in China’s western Xinjiang province. China's growing nuclear stockpile was just one of many threats highlighted by a Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday.

"Xi Jinping has one goal: to be the geopolitical, military and economic leader in the world. Period,” William Evanina, Former Dir. National Counterintelligence & Security Center, told US lawmakers during the hearing.

Images of a vast site in northern China also reveal multiple silos under construction. These would likely house intercontinental ballistic missiles, with each capable of carrying multiple warheads.

U.S. Strategic Command, the overseer of America's nuclear arsenal, responded to these alarming revelations tweeting: "The public has discovered what we have been saying all along about the growing threat the world faces and the veil of secrecy that surrounds it."

China already has 350 nuclear warheads – an arsenal the Pentagon believes will double over the next decade.

"This rapid buildup has become more difficult to hide, and it highlights how the PRC [People's Republic of China] appears again to be deviating from decades of nuclear strategy based around minimum deterrence,” said State Department Spokesperson Ned Price. It's more evidence of China's increasingly assertive military ambitions under President Xi Jinping. (CBN)