Sputnik News:
A Chinese military spokesman has stated that the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force has completed upgrades to its ballistic missiles.
“The survival ability and mobility of the strategic missiles of the Rocket Force are enhanced,” an unnamed military expert told the Global Times on Thursday.
A Chinese Ministry of National Defense spokesman told reporters the same day that “the Rocket Force is the core of China’s strategic deterrence, the pillar to support China as a great power and the cornerstone to safeguard national security.”
“It is normal and necessary for the Rocket Force to develop and update its weaponry. And this is a normal practice of other countries to modernize their militaries,” said spokesman Ren Guoqiang, adding that Beijing will “stick with the peaceful development path and pursue a defensive national defense policy.”
