India vs China: How their nuclear-capable missile arsenals compare

China and India, Asia's two most powerful countries, have spent decades building ballistic missile arsenals. These ballistic missiles are strategic weapons that act as a deterrent, under the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). This prohibitive concept states that two nuclear armed powers will not use these weapons on each other, as the use of such a weapon will ensure a retaliatory strike, thereby increasing the cost for the attacker. India and China's strategic missile arsenals now bear resemblance, but also at the same time there are differences in capability. The two countries also are also employing different philosophies for the use of these weapons, as the US Naval Institute states that China is building a significant amount of missile capability to hit US bases in the vast Pacific.While India is building its strategic missile arsenal to act as an insurance against attacks from nuclear weapons armed entities.