China's Foreign Ministry responded on Monday to President Trump's assertion that Beijing has conducted clandestine nuclear weapons testing with a flat denial.

"China's testing 'em too," Mr. Trump told CBS News correspondent Norah O'Donnell in an interview for 60 Minutes . "You just don't know about it."

"Russia's testing, and China's testing, but they don't talk about it. You know, we're a open society. We're different. We talk about it. We have to talk about it, because otherwise you people are going to report — they don't have reporters that going to be writing about it. We do."

Mr. Trump made the claim in the interview with O'Donnell that aired just days after the president's own nominee to lead STRATCOM — the U.S. military command in charge of nuclear weapons — told lawmaker

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