The Chinese JL-2 missile has been tested quiet a few times over the past decade. The US knows about it’s existence very well. There’s really no point bringing a long-range missile up close to the enemy’s territory. One the risk of detection far outweighs any symbolic benefits. Two, the US/Russia and China have always preferred open oceanic spaces to conduct tests for optimum results. Besides what would have happened if the damn thing malfunctioned and headed straight for a US city??
The Chicoms may be crazy at times, but they ain’t suicidal.
What you say is true;
But did the North Koreans think this way when they sank a South Korean ship?
Did they suffer at all for it in any way?
Might they do it again?
And what, pray tell, benefits did the US receive from sending 40 ships to India to tag along with our President?
Wasn’t that symbolism only?
But much less dramatic and of much less value than a visible missile launch just off our shores that “lit up the sky”?
Could it be China telling us that if we attack their currency, as we are doing now this very week with O at the big G-20,
then they might some day do this to us?
Just speculation.