China's imminent test-firing of an anti-satellite missile is set to prompt an arms race with the United States and Russia, a Russian military expert has warned.
The Beijing-headquartered Global Times newspaper quoted Vasily Kashin on its website Tuesday as confirming a US report that Beijing is preparing to fire an anti-satellite missile for the third time, with the apparent objective of blunting Washington's military advantage.
China test-fired its anti-satellite missile in 2007 for the first time and succeeded in destroying an inactive satellite in orbit 850,000 feet above the ground, Kashin said.
In 2012, it carried out a second test by firing another missile.
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