{"id":66943,"date":"2024-09-25T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/25\/china-missile-test-icbm-pla-rocket-force"},"modified":"2024-09-25T21:32:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:32:21","slug":"china-conducts-first-public-test-launch-of-intercontinental-ballistic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66943","title":{"rendered":"China test launches intercontinental ballistic missile for first time in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ICBM, carrying a dummy warhead, was launched into \u2018high seas\u2019 of the Pacific Ocean<\/p>\n<p>China has announced the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile into the \u201chigh seas\u201d of the Pacific Ocean, flying over the northern point of the Philippines in what is believed to be the first such test since the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the missile, which the defence ministry said was carrying a dummy warhead, comes at a time of growing international scrutiny of the country\u2019s nuclear arsenal, and prompted statements of concern from several nations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/25\/china-missile-test-icbm-pla-rocket-force\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICBM, carrying a dummy warhead, was launched into \u2018high seas\u2019 of the Pacific OceanChina has announced the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile into the \u201chigh seas\u201d of the Pacific Ocean, flying over the northern point of the Philippines i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2707,"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":[41,50,88,441,282,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-nuclear-weapons","category-south-pacific","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66943","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\/2707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66945,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66943\/revisions\/66945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}