China says latest anti-ballistic missile test ‘achieved objective’


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China carried out a successful anti-ballistic missile test on Sunday night, its defence ministry said, a year after the last one. The land-based mid-course missile was tested within China’s borders and “achieved its objective”, the Ministry of National Defence said in a brief statement. It said the missile test was defensive in nature and not aimed at any country. It is China’s sixth publicly announced land-based anti-ballistic missile test since 2010. The last such missile interceptor test was in February 2021. Shao Yongling, a military expert who was previously with the People’s Liberation Army missile force, told state broadcaster CCTV...