Falealupo, at the western tip of Savai'i, is Samoa's westernmost point and the closest part of the country to where international media reported China's nuclear-capable missile carrying a dummy warhead splashed into the Pacific Ocean near Tuvalu's Exclusive Economic Zone on Monday.
By Sulamanaia Manaui Faulalo
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08 July 2026, 9:00AM
China launched a nuclear-capable missile carrying a dummy warhead into the South Pacific on Monday, with international media reporting the missile splashed down about 1,900 kilometres north-west of Samoa near the boundary of Tuvalu's Exclusive Economic Zone.
