So what happens when somebody else builds a missile defense system that would actually like to shoot down Russia's only means of resisting that someone in a military clash?
We'll find out:
China tested emerging military technology aimed at destroying missiles in mid-air after an initial test in 2010, state media said on Sunday, in a move that will unnerve its neighbors.
A brief report by the official Xinhua news agency said the military carried out a "land-based mid-course missile interception test within its territory".
"The test has reached the pre-set goal," the report quoted an unnamed Defence Ministry official as saying. "The test is defensive in nature and targets no other country."
Oh, it's only "defensive in nature." I'm sure Moscow will just shut the Hell up, then.
It's one thing to bitterly threaten countries who don't really even think much about you, let alone plot your destruction. Quite another to pipe up when a country that considers much of your territory illegally stolen from them builds missile defenses, eh?
I smell another core interest developing.
