The State Department report detailed activity at China's Lop Nur site where preparations announced possible secret underground tests.
China is believed to have around 300 nuclear warheads, compared with the U.S. arsenal of more than 6,100. Both nations have signed the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which bans all nuclear explosions of any kind for any purpose.
"China has always adopted a responsible attitude, earnestly fulfilling the international obligations and promises it has assumed," Zhao told reporters. The Chinese Communist Party regime and the Trump administration have both maligned the other over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Last month, Zhao suggested without evidence that the U.S. Army may be behind the virus' outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
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