The Chinese language army efficiently launched an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a dummy warhead into a chosen space of the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, the nation’s Protection Ministry mentioned.
The ministry mentioned the ICBM launch, a uncommon firing over the Pacific Ocean, was a routine a part of annual army coaching, including that it was in step with worldwide legislation and apply and never directed at any particular nation or goal.
Additional particulars, together with what kind of ICBM had been launched, weren’t instantly obtainable.
The launch got here as Taiwan’s Protection Ministry mentioned earlier Wednesday in a press release that it had detected latest “intensive” missile firing and different coaching actions by the Chinese language army. The ministry mentioned in the identical assertion that it had detected 23 Chinese language army plane working round Taiwan on “long-range missions.”