China Finally Confirms Anti-Satellite Missile Test...

Associated Press January 23, 2007 06:48 PM

China confirmed Tuesday it has conducted an anti-satellite weapons test but insisted it wasn't militarizing space, nearly two weeks after the event that alarmed the world and prompted questions about Beijing's motives.

Both the United States and Japan have expressed concern about the Jan. 11 test, in which China used a missile to shoot down one of its own old weather satellites. Both countries criticized it as a step toward militarizing outer space and demanded explanations from Beijing.

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