China fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile into the South Pacific on Monday. Real missile, dummy warhead, live submarine. * CGTN's own headline on it: "China says Pacific Ocean missile test launch conducted professionally." A Chinese military spokesperson called it routine annual training, done according to international law, aimed at no one in particular. * Here's the detail sitting quietly next to "professionally": the missile landed near the exclusive economic zones of Kiribati and Tuvalu, inside waters covered by a 1986 treaty that made the whole South Pacific a nuclear-free zone. * And the timing. Hours earlier, Australia and Fiji had just signed a new defense pact -- the kind of regional alliance that tends to make Beijing nervous. * Australia's foreign minister called the test "destabilizing." New Zealand's prime minister called it "incredibly unwelcome." CNN's own headline just said China was "angering Pacific neighbors" -- closer to what actually happened in the region that morning. * We get why a government describes its own military test as "professional" -- that's what militaries say about their own tests. We just think a launch that lands inside a nuclear-free zone, hours after a rival alliance gets signed, is answering a different question than "was it done well."