Beijing has slammed the US Department of Defense’s report on China’s nuclear arsenal as a document “full of prejudice”.

In a statement on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin claimed that “the report released by the US Department of Defense, like previous similar reports, ignores facts […]” pertaining to China’s military.

He added that the White House was using the report to “hype up talk of the China nuclear threat”, slamming the US as the “world’s largest source of nuclear threat”.

The statement comes after the Pentagon on Wednesday released its annual report on military and security developments, in which the US Department of Defense specifically argued that China has expanded its nuclear arsenal much quicker than anticipated.

The report asserted, among other things, that China “is investing in, and expanding the number of its land-, sea-, and air-based nuclear delivery platforms and constructing the infrastructure necessary to support this major expansion of its nuclear forces”, and that Beijing is also building a “nuclear triad”.

Source: Agencies