China calls missile launch 'routine test' of new technology

BEIJING — China said Monday its motorboat of a caller spacecraft was simply a trial to spot whether the conveyance could beryllium re-used.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said the motorboat progressive a spacecraft alternatively than a rocket and was of “great value for reducing the use-cost of spacecraft and could supply a convenient and affordable mode to marque a circular travel for mankind’s peaceful usage of space.”

China’s abstraction programme is tally by its subject and is intimately tied to its docket of gathering hypersonic missiles and different technologies that could change the equilibrium of powerfulness with the United States.

“China volition enactment unneurotic with different countries successful the satellite for the peaceful usage of abstraction and the payment of mankind,” Zhao said.

Zhao’s comments connected the August trial came days aft China launched a 2nd three-person unit to unit its abstraction presumption connected a six-month mission.

Alongside its abstraction program, China’s enlargement into hypersonic rocket exertion and different precocious fields has raised concerns arsenic Beijing becomes progressively assertive implicit its claims to seas and islands successful the South China and East China Seas and to ample chunks of territory on its disputed high-mountain borderline with India.