China military reaches 'war footing' with new missile silos and advanced AI warfare systems

China’s military buildup has reached what a new congressional report calls a "war footing," with hundreds of new missile silos and expanding nuclear capabilities that could erode America’s long-standing deterrence edge in the Indo-Pacific.China has built roughly 350 new intercontinental missile silos and expanded its nuclear warhead stockpile by 20% in the past year, part of a sweeping military expansion that the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says could strain U.S. readiness to counter Chinese aggression.The commission’s 2025 annual report to Congress says Beijing’s rapid