Australia accused China of failing to give enough notice of long-range missile test, while the Solomon Islands leader said it was “not something a friend does”.

The dummy missile was launched by a nuclear submarine.

The Fiji treaty kicks off a week of meetings for Anthony Albanese with other regional leaders from the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and India.

The Foreign Minister says he's "deeply concerned" by China's testing of nuclear-capable weapons into the South Pacific, calling it an "unwelcome" development.

Australian government confirms it was informed by China of its intent to conduct the test on Monday

A test missile topped with a dummy warhead landed in the Pacific Ocean, Chinese state media reported

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The Australian and Fiji governments yesterday signed the Ocean of Peace Alliance.

Canberra has made clear its “concern” directly to Beijing after the Chinese military test fired a nuclear capable missile in the South Pacific.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labels a ballistic missile test carried out by China destabilising and provocative, while the Solomon Islands PM says it is "not the act of a…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has visited the Solomon Islands just as China launches a nuclear-capable ballistic missile in the region.

The Prime Minister says it's unacceptable China has tested nuclear-capable weapons in the Pacific, and the government's expressed its concerns directly.

The timing – on the day the Ocean of Peace Alliance treaty was signed with Fiji – reads as provocation at best, coercion at worst

Australia accused China of failing to give enough notice of long-range missile test, while the Solomon Islands leader said it was “not something a friend does”.

Australia has accused China of failing to give enough notice of its long-range ballistic missile launch, which appears to have landed near Nauru.

Canberra has made a direct protest to Beijing over the launch of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile, as the US rebukes China over its nuclear build-up.

SYDNEY — Australia and the Solomon Islands pledged on Tuesday to deepen bilateral ties and criticised China's test of a ballistic missile fired fro...

Beijing described the test as ‘routine’, while the US, Australia and countries in the Pacific condemned the exercise

Albanese says China’s weapons test in the Pacific risks fuelling dangerous nuclear proliferation

Despite Beijing’s insistence that the launch was a “routine” test, it is widely perceived in the region as a provocative and unsettling act.

Beijing should be well aware that firing a weapon into the open ocean, thousands of kilometres from its mainland, is deeply provocative.