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This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

With Gordon Chang, I'm G Chang, my colleague and friend, and we're very pleased to welcome

Peter Hughcy. The reason we need Peter right now is a headline in the Financial Times. China tests

intercontinental ballistic missile in Pacific for first time since 1980.

Sub had first major missile launched since hypersonic tests in 2021, comes ahead of anticipated

Biden-She phone call.

Peter, a very good day to you, the reason we're keen on this is that the timing is

everything with the Chinese provocations these days and you at the very

careful position of president of geostrategic analysis and a fellow at the National

Institute for Deterrant Studies are in the right position to put all these dots together.

It's a DF-41, we're told.

Launched from a mobile launcher on Hainan Island is a speculation by Taipei by Tokyo observers.

It did not overfly Japan's airspace, however it did require the Chinese to give warning of possible

debris in the Philippines Sea and elsewhere.

Right now that's all we know.

The assumption is that it has to do with a weapon and not with a space test.

How do you read these headlines?

Good day to you, Peter. And good day, John, and then Gordon, and thank you for inviting me.

What the Chinese are doing is called intimidation and telling the United States and our allies, we're here and we have long-range nuclear weapons.

The DF-41 carries between six and ten warheads.

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