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China flexes space muscle, shows it can destroy a satellite with missile

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    • New York Times Tags : Posted: Saturday , Jan 20, 2007 at 0202 hrs

    ‘China didn’t destroy satellite’

    MOSCOW: Russia on Friday denied Western media reports as unfounded that China shot down an ageing weather satellite by a ballistic missile on January 11. “Reports to the effect that a Chinese ballistic missile has hit a satellite are highly exaggerated rumours,” Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov told journalists, while commenting on the reported Chinese satellite destruction test. “I am afraid they do not have such an anti-satellite basis,” Ivanov stressed. —Dadan Upadhyay

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