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China carries out anti-missile test
BEIJING |
BEIJING (Reuters) - China tested emerging military technology aimed at destroying missiles in mid-air after an initial test in 2010, state media said on Sunday, in a move that will unnerve its neighbors.
A brief report by the official Xinhua news agency said the military carried out a "land-based mid-course missile interception test within its territory".
"The test has reached the pre-set goal," the report quoted an unnamed Defence Ministry official as saying. "The test is defensive in nature and targets no other country."
It did not specify whether any missile or object had been destroyed in the test.
"Although no other detailed information about the test was released from the military authorities, weapon system experts said such a test could build shield for China's air defenses by intercepting incoming warheads such as ballistic missiles in space," the report added.
People's Liberation Army officials and documents in recent years have said developing anti-missile technology is one focus of defense spending, which has grown by double-digits over many years.
The latest flexing of China's maturing military hardware comes as Beijing is involved in increasingly bitter territorial disputes in the East China Sea with Japan and in the South China Sea with several Southeast Asian nations.
Beijing says its military spending is for defensive purposes and the modernization of outdated forces.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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Some US combat veterans, who earned advanced degrees in the sciences in between missions, have decided that it is better to develop defense technologies in China than in the US. In addition, the criminals in the US economy and defense industry are willing to sell US technology because the US no longer enforces it laws against corporate criminals.
The US has chosen to be a criminal organization that does not deserve to be the world’s leader, and it is reaping that particular whirlwind. At the same time, China has been improving despite the unwillingness of some Americans to believe the evidence. This latest test of a defense system against missiles is more proof.
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