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SHANGHAI — China has carried out a land-based missile interception test that "achieved its expected purpose", the Defence Ministry said, describing it as defensive and not aimed at any country. China has been ramping up research into all sorts of missiles, from those that can destroy satellites in space to advanced nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, as part of an ambitious modernisation scheme overseen by President Xi Jinping. Beijing has tested missile interceptors before; the most recent previous public announcement of a test was in Feb 2021, and before that in 2018. State media has said China has conducted anti-missile system tests...
