Missile test: What China’s show of • Table.Briefings

At the military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing displayed these DF-41 Dongfeng intercontinental ballistic missiles, which have a range of up to 14,000 kilometers.

For the first time since 1980, the People’s Liberation Army has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific. The weapons test raises some worrying questions.

On Wednesday morning at 08:44 local time, the Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile, equipped with a dummy explosive, flew in a high arc into the Pacific. The weapons test came as a huge surprise to the world public. Spokesperson Zhang Xiaogang from the Ministry of Defense, however, spoke of pure „routine“: the test was „in accordance with international law and was not directed against a specific country or target“.

Missile test: What China’s show of force in the Pacific means

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