News Analysis NEW DELHI–China’s strategic competition with the United States and the strengthening of its strategic nuclear arsenal has a direct impact on India with which it shares thousands of miles of disputed border. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the Staff of the United States, Gen. Mark A. Milley called China the number one military challenger for the United States, while the Pentagon’s annual report to Congress released on Nov. 3 said that China will have 1000 nuclear warheads by 2030. “The PRC 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,” said the DOD in its report titled  “Military and Security Development Involving the People’s Republic of China.” (pdf) India and China have been involved in a tense border situation after a bloody conflict in Galwan …