{"id":84180,"date":"2026-07-07T10:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84180"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:33:29","slug":"chinas-long-range-missile-test-spooks-us-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/chinas-long-range-missile-test-spooks-us-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Long-Range Missile Test Spooks US Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>NewsmaxWorld:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>U.S. allies are spooked following China&#8217;s test-firing of a long-range ballistic missile in the Pacific Ocean, according to news reports.<\/p>\n<p>The missile, launched from a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine, was &#8220;not directed against any specific country or target,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260706\/9c7b56ebd3eb4c7da4f0155657dc82f0\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noskim\">according to a report from Xinhua<\/a>, China&#8217;s official news agency.\u00a0But officials from Australia, New Zealand, and Japan condemned the test, with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong criticizing it as &#8220;destabilizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NewsmaxWorld: U.S. allies are spooked following China&#8217;s test-firing of a long-range ballistic missile in the Pacific Ocean, according to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84181,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84180\/revisions\/84181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}