{"id":45600,"date":"2022-06-20T11:33:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T02:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/20\/china-anti-missile-tests-defensive-thaad-south-korea"},"modified":"2022-06-21T00:57:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:57:05","slug":"china-carries-out-anti-missile-tests-amid-opposition-to-us-systems-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45600","title":{"rendered":"China says anti-missile test not \u2018aimed at any country\u2019 despite rising tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ballistic missile interception system trial follows North Korean tests and deployment of US THAAD system in South Korea<\/p>\n<p>China has claimed a successful test of a land-based ballistic missile interception system amid heightened tensions in Asia, in a move its defence ministry described as \u201cdefensive and not aimed at any country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has in recent years 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 a modernisation overseen by President Xi Jinping. It came after North Korea conducted a series of missile tests, which prompted South Korea and the US to warn that Pyongyang could conduct a nuclear test at any time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/20\/china-anti-missile-tests-defensive-thaad-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballistic missile interception system trial follows North Korean tests and deployment of US THAAD system in South KoreaChina has claimed a successful test of a land-based ballistic missile interception system amid heightened tensions in Asia, in a move&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,40,299,222,58,473,47,1051,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-north-korea","category-science","category-south-korea","category-technology","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-weapons-technology","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45612,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45600\/revisions\/45612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}