China has carried out a live-fire test at the contested border with India in a show of force as tensions between the two Asian giants fester.
"The female missile platoon fired live ammunition at a new subsonic target aircraft for the first time on the Karakoram Plateau at an altitude of 4,300 meters. The female soldiers found an 'enemy aircraft' due east and launched the missile after a countdown. The missile took off and accurately hit the target," state broadcaster China Central Television said on X-like Chinese platform Weibo on Monday.
The live fire exercise by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) showcased an advanced surface-to-air missile system. Video footage of the test was viewed over 514,000 times on Weibo.
The live-fire exercise by the People's Liberation Army took place in a strategic Karkorum plateau across from Eastern Ladakh, where Chinaand India have been locked in a military stand-off since 2020.
Newsweek contacted India's Ministry of External Affairs and the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi for comment.
Since June 2020, China and India have been in a tense military stand-off with thousands of military personnel deployed along the Line of Actual Control, the de facto boundary that divides the two Asian superpowers.
India now considers Beijing as one of its primary strategic adversaries. On Monday, New Delhi tested the Agni-5 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV) to deter China's nuclear posturing.
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