China reveals anti-satellite missile test

China has acknowledged to the US, Japan and other countries that it conducted an anti-satellite weapons test recently, the foreign ministry said today.

Washington and Tokyo have expressed concern over the January 11 test in which China used a missile to shoot down one of its own old weather satellites.

Both countries criticised the anti-satellite test as expanding the arms race to space.

“China has opposed the weaponisation of space and any arms race,” foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said.