Flags of China on the building of the People's Assembly House in Beijing. Archival photo BEIJING, 4 Jan — RIA Novosti. The United States should not try to assess China's nuclear arsenal using satellite imagery, said Fu Cong, Director of the Foreign Ministry's Arms Control Department, in a briefing, commenting on US media reports that China is building at least three ICBM sites.
& # 34; As for mines, I also read messages about this, but these are conflicting messages, someone says that these are missile mines, someone — that these are wind generators. I'm not in a position to confirm any message. But what I can say is that it is not a serious matter to try to calculate the size of China's nuclear forces based on these images & # 34 ;, — said the diplomat.
Publications about the construction of ICBM sites in China began to appear in the US media in July. In particular, the Washington Post newspaper reported on the construction of 119 launching shafts near the city of Yumen in Gansu province, the New York Times on 110 mines in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and the Washington Times on the third site in western China, where more 100 new Dongfeng-41 missiles. At the same time, the publications referred to the conclusions of experts who analyzed satellite images, as well as to American officials who said that these three sites could house 350 to 400 long-range nuclear missiles. The Chinese newspaper People's Daily, for its part, wrote that American analysts were wrong — they mistook the foundations for wind generators for mines for ballistic missiles. As explained by military experts, the Dongfeng-41 missiles are launched using a mobile installation, and not from a mine. 
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the extension of START-3 by Russia and the United States is not enough