China’s Pacific Missile Test and the Indo-Pacific’s New Nuclear Reality

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On July 6, at 12:01pm Beijing time, a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine launched a ballistic missile from beneath the South China Sea. The missile came to rest some 300km east of Tonga, in the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone which China had pledged to respect in the Treaty of Rarotonga, which it signed in 1987. Beijing [...] The post China’s Pacific Missile Test and the Indo-Pacific’s New Nuclear Reality appeared first on Modern Diplomacy .