The Defence Minister says China featured in round-table talks with South Pacific partners this week. 

Auckland hosted the annual meeting for ministers from Australia, Fiji, France, Chile, Tonga and Papua New Guinea.

Judith Collins says everybody was very disappointed by China's recent intercontinental ballistic missile test over the Pacific Ocean. 

She says New Zealand was told a few hours beforehand. 

"But most of the countries over whose territory it would have flown did not know about it - and people felt that that was unwelcomed, unexpected and unnecessary 

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