The Chinese regime’s recent missile test is an attempt to pose a threat to the U.S. mainland and a means of breaking through the First Island Chain, analysts say, but it has also prompted democratic nations to strengthen cooperation in countering China’s military threat.
The Chinese Navy test-fired a submarine-launched long-range missile equipped with a training warhead that landed in the south Pacific during a joint military drill with Russia on July 6.
The Chinese Navy said on July 6 that a nuclear submarine launched a strategic missile carrying a dummy warhead toward relevant high seas of the Pacific Ocean, and the missile landed precisely in the designated waters….
China Tests Long Range Missile in the Pacific to Advance Its Aggression: Analysts

