Analysis: Xi Jinping tests Trump’s limits with Pacific SLBM firing

Xi Jinping had an ulterior motive in launching an SLBM over the Pacific Ocean on July 6 — to see if Donald Trump might acquiesce to a suggestion that Barack Obama long ago snubbed. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and PLA Navy's WeChat account) Route sent a message to the Philippines while avoiding South Korea fallout Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent, and later as China bureau chief, and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.

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