🇨🇳⚡️🚀 China's PLA conducts rare public test launch of intercontinental ballistic missile

China said on Wednesday that it successfully conducted a rare launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean, a move likely to raise international concerns about the country's nuclear build-up.

The ICBM, carrying a dummy warhead, was launched by the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force at 8:44 a.m. Beijing time (0044 GMT) on Wednesday and "fell into expected sea areas," the Chinese defence ministry said in a statement, adding that it was a "routine arrangement in our annual training plan" and not directed at any country or target.

China "informed the countries concerned in advance," according to a separate Xinhua report, which did not clarify the path of the missile or where in the "high seas of the Pacific Ocean" it fell.

The launch "effectively tested the performance of weapons and equipment and the training level of the troops, and achieved the expected goal," Xinhua reported.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-pla-launches-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-into-pacific-ocean-2024-09-25/

@FelipeChannel

🇨🇳The type of the product that the Chinese military launched this morning from the cosmodrome on Hainan Island has become known.

This is the latest DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile with a launch range of up to 12,000 km and capable of delivering 10 nuclear warheads to their targets at a speed of Mach 25.

🇸🇻 Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, at the U.N. General Assembly in New York City:

"In El Salvador we prioritised the security of our honest citizens over the comfort of criminals some have said that we've put thousands in prison but the reality is that we have set millions free. The good people now walk freely, without fear and with full respect for their freedoms and human rights!".

🔗 Nayib Bukele

🇷🇺🛡🇧🇾 Russian president Vladimir Putin said Russia will use nuclear weapons if Belarus comes under attack!

🔗 https://fxtwitter.com/anadoluagency/status/1838985864585560512

🇺🇸🕊🇱🇧🇮🇱 — The Biden-Harris White House, aiming to prevent an all-out war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah released a Joint Statement earlier tonight calling for a 21-Day Ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, to allow for Negotiations on Hezbollah’s Compliance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, as well as the continuation of Ceasefire Negotiations in relation to the Gaza Strip.

Alongside them:

🇦🇺 Australia
🇨🇦 Canada
🇪🇺 European Union
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
🇯🇵 Japan
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
🇬🇧 United Kingdom of Great Britain
🇶🇦 Qatar; c,

🇪🇸❗️🇺🇳🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The socialist president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, broke the ice at the UN General Assembly by demanding "respect for the will of the Venezuelan people."

🇵🇾❗️🇺🇳🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The president of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, denounced the fraud of Nicolás Maduro's dictatorship and the persecution that followed the elections in Venezuela during his speech at the UN.

🇵🇦❗️🇺🇳🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, harshly criticized the international community's inaction regarding the Venezuelan crisis at the UN:

“It is difficult to talk about health and the environment when 8 million Venezuelans have fled a country that should be an economic powerhouse.”

🇭🇳🤝🇻🇪🇨🇺 — The socialist president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, surrounded by accusations of drug trafficking within her close circle, defended the regimes of Venezuela and Cuba at the UN.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 American deployment in the Middle East:

🔶 Dozens of additional U.S. troops deployed to Cyprus (+700 from the UK) to assist with possible Lebanon evac

🔶 7 fewer U.S. warships than 2 weeks ago (from ~30% to 25% of the deployed fleet)

🔶 Navy’s only oiler in the region ran aground & towed to Oman

🔶 In August, the U.S. surged military assets into the region to deter Iran from attacking Israel. At its peak, this represented approximately 30% of the deployed U.S. Navy fleet. With the departure of the Roosevelt CSG, plus a few destroyers & logistics ships, it’s now around 25%.

🔗 Ian Ellis

🇭🇹🇺🇳💧📹 — Video: The Head of the Haitian Transitional Presidential Council Edgar Leblanc Fils sips from a comically massive jug of water during his speech at the UN General Assembly.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 Fox News journalist, Trey Yingst on X:

Fox News has learned the target of the strike on Beirut was Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

🔗 Trey Yingst