From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] China: PLA Tests Nuclear Missile - SCMP Saturday, August 25, 2001 PLA tests nuclear missile as war games end ============================= STAFF REPORTER The PLA tested a medium-range nuclear missile this week as the military wrapped up its massive war games off the Taiwan Strait, the Washington Times reported yesterday. US military satellites tracked a CSS-2 intermediate-range ballistic missile, which carried a dummy warhead, fired from a test facility in northern China on Tuesday, the paper reported on its Web site. "The flight was anticipated," the report quoted a US official as saying. "US intelligence agencies in the past two weeks spotted a CSS-2 erected on a mobile launcher several times." The CSS-2 is a liquid-fuel missile with a range of about 3,100km. The launch coincided with the end of four months of military exercises that included amphibious landing drills near Taiwan, long-range bomber manoeuvres and information warfare exercises by the Chinese military, the report cited US defence sources as saying. Published in the South China Morning Post. Copyright � 2001. All rights reserved. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/zoU8wD/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/XcSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
