Australian Pacific Minister Pat Conroy argued that the test has damaged China’s standing as a potential regional partner, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think this was conducive to China’s standing in the region,” Conroy told ABC’s Insiders this morning.<\/p>\n
Responding to a question as to whether the missile test has emboldened countries in the region to pursue a regional security agreement, Conroy said the incident underscored the need for Pacific-led security.<\/p>\n
“This would take a number of years if the rest of the Pacific was up for it, but ultimately it is a decision for all the Pacific leaders and we act on a consensus approach,” he further said.<\/p>\n
On Monday, China “successfully” conducted the test launch from a nuclear submarine, hours after Beijing notified several Pacific nations of the planned test.<\/p>\n
China called the launch “routine,” but Pacific leaders, including Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, sharply criticized the test as “provocative” and “destabilizing.”<\/p>\n
The launch marks China’s second strategic missile test since it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean in September 2024, the first such test since 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Pacific Minister Pat Conroy argued that the test has damaged China’s standing as a potential regional partner,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-795239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}