The United States monitored China's test launch of a strategic submarine-launched missile and is urging Beijing to engage in substantive arms control discussions, the U.S. State Department said.

"We continue to urge China to participate in substantive arms control discussions and to commit to regularly notifying about all intercontinental ballistic missile launches and space launches in accordance with the commitments undertaken by all other members of the 'nuclear five'," the statement published on the U.S. foreign policy agency's website emphasized.

The State Department assured that Washington remains "committed to its defense obligations to allies and partners."

Earlier, China's Ministry of Defense said that the Navy of the People's Liberation Army of China, as part of planned exercises, had successfully carried out a test launch from a submarine of a strategic missile with a dummy warhead in the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Commenting on the launch, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that China has the sovereign right to conduct test launches of strategic missiles.

"We believe that it is China's sovereign right to test its missiles and engage in military development. China does not threaten any state in the region and does not threaten anyone in the world. China is our major ally and partner," Peskov told reporters on Monday.